Jewish as a Second Language

Jewish as a Second Language PDF Author: Molly Katz
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 0761158405
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
In this completely revised, updated, and expanded second edition of "Jewish as a Second Language," Katz shows how to worry, interrupt, and say the opposite of what one means.

Jewish Languages from A to Z

Jewish Languages from A to Z PDF Author: Aaron D. Rubin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351043439
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
Jewish Languages from A to Z provides an engaging and enjoyable overview of the rich variety of languages spoken and written by Jews over the past three thousand years. The book covers more than 50 different languages and language varieties. These include not only well-known Jewish languages like Hebrew, Yiddish, and Ladino, but also more exotic languages like Chinese, Esperanto, Malayalam, and Zulu, all of which have a fascinating Jewish story to be told. Each chapter presents the special features of the language variety in question, a discussion of the history of the associated Jewish community, and some examples of literature and other texts produced in it. The book thus takes readers on a stimulating voyage around the Jewish world, from ancient Babylonia to 21st-century New York, via such diverse locations as Tajikistan, South Africa, and the Caribbean. The chapters are accompanied by numerous full-colour photographs of the literary treasures produced by Jewish language-speaking communities, from ancient stone inscriptions to medieval illuminated manuscripts to contemporary novels and newspapers. This comprehensive survey of Jewish languages is designed to be accessible to all readers with an interest in languages or history, regardless of their background—no prior knowledge of linguistics or Jewish history is assumed.

Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures

Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures PDF Author: Anita Norich
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472053019
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 453

Book Description
A fascinating discussion of Jewish multiculturalism through the range of Jewish lingualisms, cultures, and history

Becoming Frum

Becoming Frum PDF Author: Sarah Bunin Benor
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813553911
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 271

Book Description
When non-Orthodox Jews become frum (religious), they encounter much more than dietary laws and Sabbath prohibitions. They find themselves in the midst of a whole new culture, involving matchmakers, homemade gefilte fish, and Yiddish-influenced grammar. Becoming Frum explains how these newcomers learn Orthodox language and culture through their interactions with community veterans and other newcomers. Some take on as much as they can as quickly as they can, going beyond the norms of those raised in the community. Others maintain aspects of their pre-Orthodox selves, yielding unique combinations, like Matisyahu’s reggae music or Hebrew words and sing-song intonation used with American slang, as in “mamish (really) keepin’ it real.” Sarah Bunin Benor brings insight into the phenomenon of adopting a new identity based on ethnographic and sociolinguistic research among men and women in an American Orthodox community. Her analysis is applicable to other situations of adult language socialization, such as students learning medical jargon or Canadians moving to Australia. Becoming Frum offers a scholarly and accessible look at the linguistic and cultural process of “becoming.”

The Languages of Israel

The Languages of Israel PDF Author: Bernard Spolsky
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 9781853594519
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 316

Book Description
The practice and ideology of the treatment of the languages of Israel are examined in this book. It asks about the extent to which the present linguistic pattern may be attribited to explicit language planning activities.

Bridge of Words

Bridge of Words PDF Author: Esther Schor
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805090797
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
"A history of Esperanto, the utopian "universal language" invented in 1887"--

Languages of Community

Languages of Community PDF Author: Hillel J. Kieval
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520921160
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 346

Book Description
With a keen eye for revealing details, Hillel J. Kieval examines the contours and distinctive features of Jewish experience in the lands of Bohemia and Moravia (the present-day Czech Republic), from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century. In the Czech lands, Kieval writes, Jews have felt the need constantly to define and articulate the nature of group identity, cultural loyalty, memory, and social cohesiveness, and the period of "modernizing" absolutism, which began in 1780, brought changes of enormous significance. From that time forward, new relationships with Gentile society and with the culture of the state blurred the traditional outlines of community and individual identity. Kieval navigates skillfully among histories and myths as well as demography, biography, culture, and politics, illuminating the maze of allegiances and alliances that have molded the Jewish experience during these 200 years.

German as a Jewish Problem

German as a Jewish Problem PDF Author: Marc Volovici
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503613100
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433

Book Description
The German language holds an ambivalent and controversial place in the modern history of European Jews, representing different—often conflicting—historical currents. It was the language of the German classics, of German Jewish writers and scientists, of Central European Jewish culture, and of Herzl and the Zionist movement. But it was also the language of Hitler, Goebbels, and the German guards in Nazi concentration camps. The crucial role of German in the formation of Jewish national culture and politics in the late nineteenth century has been largely overshadowed by the catastrophic events that befell Jews under Nazi rule. German as a Jewish Problem tells the Jewish history of the German language, focusing on Jewish national movements in Central and Eastern Europe and Palestine/Israel. Marc Volovici considers key writers and activists whose work reflected the multilingual nature of the Jewish national sphere and the centrality of the German language within it, and argues that it is impossible to understand the histories of modern Hebrew and Yiddish without situating them in relation to German. This book offers a new understanding of the language problem in modern Jewish history, turning to German to illuminate the questions and dilemmas that largely defined the experience of European Jews in the age of nationalism.

Dictionary of Jewish Terms

Dictionary of Jewish Terms PDF Author: Ronald L. Eisenberg
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN: 1589797299
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 493

Book Description
The vocabulary of Judaism includes religious terms, customs, Hebrew, Aramaic and Yiddish terms, terms related to American Jewish life and the State of Israel. All are represented in this new guide, with easy to read explanation and cross-references.

Buen Shabat, Shabbat Shalom

Buen Shabat, Shabbat Shalom PDF Author: Sarah Aroeste
Publisher: Kar-Ben Publishing (R)
ISBN: 1541542460
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 12

Book Description
Learn Ladino words and celebrate Shabbat.
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