The Non-Jewish Origins of the Sephardic Jews

The Non-Jewish Origins of the Sephardic Jews
Author: Paul Wexler
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781438423937

The author uses linguistic, ethnographic, and historical evidence to support his theory that the origins of Sephardic Jews are predominantly Berber and Arab.

In the Iberian Peninsula and Beyond

In the Iberian Peninsula and Beyond
Author: Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2015-09-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1443883204

This book is the result of two scientific encounters hosted by the University of Évora in 2012, with the theme “Muslims and Jews in Portugal and the Diaspora. Identities and Memories (16th–17th centuries)”, and co-financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology, and by FEDER, through “Eixo I” of the “Programa Operacional Fatores de Competitividade” (POFC) of QREN (COMPETE). Beginning with an analysis of the forced conversion of Iberian Jews and Muslims, this volume examines the effects of this on their respective diasporas, focusing on a variety of approaches, from language and culture to identity discourses and interchanges between those communities.

Handbook of Jewish Languages

Handbook of Jewish Languages
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 780
Release: 2017-10-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004359540

This Handbook of Jewish Languages is an introduction to the many languages used by Jews throughout history, including Yiddish, Judezmo (Ladino) , and Jewish varieties of Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Berber, English, French, Georgian, Greek, Hungarian, Iranian, Italian, Latin American Spanish, Malayalam, Occitan (Provençal), Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Syriac, Turkic (Karaim and Krymchak), Turkish, and more. Chapters include historical and linguistic descriptions of each language, an overview of primary and secondary literature, and comprehensive bibliographies to aid further research. Many chapters also contain sample texts and images. This book is an unparalleled resource for anyone interested in Jewish languages, and will also be very useful for historical linguists, dialectologists, and scholars and students of minority or endangered languages. This paperback edition has been updated to include dozens of additional bibliographic references.

The study of languages

The study of languages
Author: Einar Haugen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 1200
Release: 2019-04-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3111684970

To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 selected treasures from the De Gruyter Book Archive. Titles will be made available to anyone, anywhere at any time that might be interested. The DGBA project seeks to digitize the entire backlist of titles published since 1749 to ensure that future generations have digital access to the high-quality primary sources that De Gruyter has published over the centuries.

Jewish and Non-Jewish Creators of "Jewish" Languages

Jewish and Non-Jewish Creators of
Author: Paul Wexler
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Total Pages: 966
Release: 2006
Genre: Hebrew language
ISBN: 9783447054041

The present volume brings together 34 articles that were published between 1964 and 2003 on Judaized forms of Arabic, Chinese, German, Greek, Persian, Portuguese, Slavic (including Modern Hebrew and Yiddish, two Slavic languages "relexified" to Hebrew and German, respectively), Spanish and Semitic Hebrew (including Ladino - the Ibero-Romance relexification of Biblical Hebrew) and Karaite. The motivations for reissuing these articles are the convenience of having thematically similar topics appear together in the same venue and the need to update the interpretations, many of which have radically changed over the years. As explained in a lengthy new preface and in notes added to the articles themselves, the impetus to create strikingly unique Jewish ethnolects comes not so much from the creativity of the Jews but rather from non- Jewish converts to Judaism, in search (often via relexification) of a unique linguistic analogue to their new ethnoreligious identity. The volume should be of interest to students of relexification, of the Judaization of non-Jewish languages, and of these specific languages.