Handbook of Jewish Languages

781 Pages·2015·9.09 MB·English

by  Lily Kahn

HandbookofJewishLanguages
Brill’s Handbooks
in Linguistics
ManagingEditor
BrianD.Joseph(TheOhioStateUniversity,Columbus,usa)
SeriesEditors
ArtemisAlexiadou(UniversityofStuttgart,Stuttgart,Germany)
HaraldBaayen(UniversityofAlberta,Edmonton,Canada)
PierMarcoBertinetto(ScuolaNormaleSuperiore,Pisa,Italy)
KirkHazen(WestVirginiaUniversity,Morgantown,usa)
MariaPolinsky(HarvardUniversity,Cambridge,usa)
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Handbook of Jewish Languages
Editedby
LilyKahn
AaronD.Rubin
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
AuthorBiographies x
Transcription xvii
Introduction 1
AaronD.RubinandLilyKahn
1 JewishAmharic 8
AnbessaTeferra
2 Judeo-Arabic 22
GeoffreyKhan
3 Judeo-Aramaic 64
StevenE.Fassberg
4 JewishBerber 118
JosephChetrit
5 JewishEnglish 130
SarahBuninBenor
6 Judeo-French 138
MarcKiwittandStephenDörr
7 JewishGeorgian 178
ReuvenEnoch
8 Judeo-Greek 194
JuliaG.Krivoruchko
9 JewishHungarian 226
JudithRosenhouse
10 Judeo-IranianLanguages 234
HabibBorjian
vi contents
11 Judeo-Italian 297
AaronD.Rubin
12 Judezmo(Ladino) 365
DavidM.Bunis
13 KaraimandKrymchak 451
HenrykJankowski
14 JewishLatinAmericanSpanish 489
EvelynDean-OlmstedandSusanaSkura
15 JewishMalayalam 503
OphiraGamliel
16 Judeo-Occitan(Judeo-Provençal) 517
AdamStrichwithGeorgeJochnowitz
17 Judeo-Portuguese 552
DevonStrolovitch
18 JewishRussian 593
AnnaVerschik
19 Judeo-Slavic 599
BradSabinHill
20 JewishSwedish 618
PatricJoshuaKlagsbrunLebenswerd
21 Judeo-Syriac 630
SiamBhayro
22 Judeo-Turkish 634
LaurentMignon
23 Yiddish 641
LilyKahn
contents vii
Epilogue:OtherJewishLanguages,PastandPresent 748
AaronD.Rubin
Index 753

Acknowledgements
Thisbookhasbeenmadepossibleonlybythecooperationofallofthecon-
tributorstothisvolume.Notonlydidtheseauthorsprovidetheirspecialized
expertiseontheJewishlanguages,buttheydidsoinaverytimelyandprofes-
sionalmanner.Weaseditorshavebeenluckytoworkwithsuchafineteam.
Wethankalloftheauthorssincerelyfortheirefforts.
We would also like to express our gratitude to all those at Brill who have
helpedmakethisprojectareality.SashaGoldstein-SabbahandJenniferPavelko
helpedgetthisprojectstarted,whileStephaniePaalvastandMarjoleinSchaake
workedveryhardtoseethisvolumethroughitsvariousstages.Wewerevery
fortunatetoworkwithJohannesRustenburgofTATZetwerkintheproduction
stage,andwethankhimforhishardworkandattentiontodetail.