Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics
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Subject: Language And Linguistics
Edited by: Geoffrey Khan
Associate editors: Shmuel Bolozky, Steven Fassberg, Gary A. Rendsburg, Aaron D. Rubin, Ora R. Schwarzwald, Tamar Zewi
The Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics Online offers a systematic and comprehensive treatment of all aspects of the history and study of the Hebrew language from its earliest attested form to the present day.
The Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics Online features advanced search options, as well as extensive cross-references and full-text search functionality using the Hebrew character set. With over 850 entries and approximately 400 contributing scholars, the Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics Online is the authoritative reference work for students and researchers in the fields of Hebrew linguistics, general linguistics, Biblical studies, Hebrew and Jewish literature, and related fields.
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Associate editors: Shmuel Bolozky, Steven Fassberg, Gary A. Rendsburg, Aaron D. Rubin, Ora R. Schwarzwald, Tamar Zewi
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The Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics Online offers a systematic and comprehensive treatment of all aspects of the history and study of the Hebrew language from its earliest attested form to the present day.
The Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics Online features advanced search options, as well as extensive cross-references and full-text search functionality using the Hebrew character set. With over 850 entries and approximately 400 contributing scholars, the Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics Online is the authoritative reference work for students and researchers in the fields of Hebrew linguistics, general linguistics, Biblical studies, Hebrew and Jewish literature, and related fields.
Subscriptions: Brill.com
Yiddish and German Loanwords
(2,195 words)
The Jews of the Ashkenazi Diaspora, which in the Early Modern period extended from Alsace in the west to the eastern frontiers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, spent more than a millennium in a linguistic environment where a variety of Romance, Germanic, and Slavic languages were used. The effects of the influence of Germanic languages on the Ashkenazi Jews’ spoken and written vernaculars came about over the course of several historical phases. It began with the formation of a Jewish-Germa…
Yiddish, Hebrew Component in
(2,717 words)
1. Introduction According to Weinreich (1973:I 32–33; 2008: 29–30) and his followers, Hebrew(-Aramaic) is one of the four components of Yiddish, the other three being Romance, German, and Slavic. Speakers of what would later become Yiddish were in contact with these four ‘stock languages’ (or language groups). Elements of the stock languages that could
theoretically have entered Yiddish are called ‘determinants’, and the determinants that
did enter it are called ‘components’. The Hebrew determinant and component are also known as ‘whole Hebrew’ and ‘merged He…
Yiddish-Hebrew Mixed Texts
(1,524 words)
The texts referred to here are communal documents which originated in the territories where Yiddish was spoken as a vernacular language of Jewish communities, i.e., mostly Central and Eastern Europe. Good representations of this kind of text are collections of Jewish communal documents of Polish soil that cover the time span of the 16th–18th centuries, a period characterized by flourishing Jewish autonomy in Poland. We will discuss the language of this corpus of texts. These documents, issued by communal authorities, concern different aspects of civil law and everyday…
Yiddish-Hebrew Mixed Texts
(1,524 words)
The texts referred to here are communal documents which originated in the territories where Yiddish was spoken as a vernacular language of Jewish communities, i.e., mostly Central and Eastern Europe. Good representations of this kind of text are collections of Jewish communal documents of Polish soil that cover the time span of the 16th–18th centuries, a period characterized by flourishing Jewish autonomy in Poland. We will discuss the language of this corpus of texts. These documents, issued by communal authorities, concern different aspects of civil law and everyday…
Yiddish Influence on Hebrew
(6,288 words)
1. Introduction The Jews who wandered in the lands of the Diaspora in the centuries following the destruction of their homeland communicated with their neighbors in the local languages, but within the Jewish communities a special situation arose, which M. Weinreich (1973:251–320) called ‘internal bilingualism’, in which the Hebrew language, common to the entire Jewish people, coexisted with a language that emerged in a number of Jewish centers, for example Ladino, Yiddish, and Judeo-Arabic. In thi…