Bernard Spolsky

The Languages of the Jews

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A vivid commentary on Jewish survival and Jewish speech communities, investigating difficult questions about language varieties and choices.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 694g
• ISBN-13: 9781107055445
• ISBN-10: 110705544X
• Artikelnr.: 40626144

Autorenporträt

Bernard Spolsky is Professor Emeritus of the English Department at Bar-Ilan University and editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy.

Inhaltsangabe

Glossary
1. Is Hebrew an endangered language?
2. The emergence of Hebrew
3. Hebrew-Aramaic bilingualism and competition
4. Three languages in Hellenistic and Roman Palestine
5. From statehood to diaspora
6. The Arabian and African connections
7. The spread of Islam
8. The Jews of France
9. The Jews of Spain and their languages
10. Loter-Ashkenaz and the creation of Yiddish
11. The Yavanic area - Greece and Italy
12. Jews in Slavic lands
13. Linguistic emancipation and assimilation in Europe
14. Britain, its former colonies and the New World
15. Islam and the Orient
16. The return to Zion and Hebrew
Appendix: estimated current status of Jewish languages.