Vernacular Voices - Language and Identity in Medieval French Jewish Communities

Informationen zum Autor Kirsten A. Fudeman Klappentext Applying analytical strategies from linguistics, literature, and history, Kirsten Fudeman demonstrates that language played a central role in the formation, expression, and maintenance of medieval Jewish identity and that it brought Christians and Jews together even as it set them apart. Zusammenfassung Applying analytical strategies from linguistics! literature! and history! Kirsten Fudeman demonstrates that language played a central role in the formation! expression! and maintenance of medieval Jewish identity and that it brought Christians and Jews together even as it set them apart. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Translations and Transcription and Typological Conventions List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Medieval French Jewish Community in Its Linguistic Context Chapter 1. Language and Identity Chapter 2. Speech and Silence, Male and Female in Jewish-Christian Relations: Blois, 1171 Chapter 3. Texts of Two Colors Chapter 4. Hebrew-French Wedding Songs: Expressions of Identity Epilogue Appendices 1. Hebraico-French Glosses and Texts 2. The Medieval Jewish Wedding Song 'Uri liqra'ti yafah, gentis kallah einoreie Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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• Authors: Kirsten Fudeman, Kirsten A Fudeman, Kirsten A. Fudeman, Kirsten Anne Fudeman, Fudeman Kirsten
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.07.2010
• EAN: 9780812242508
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4250-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts; Jewish Culture and Contexts
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism