The Languages of the Jews

Bernard (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) Spolsky

Cambridge University Press, 2014

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Jewish historical sociolinguistics is rich in unanswered questions: when does a language become 'Jewish'? What was the origin of Yiddish? This book presents a vivid commentary on Jewish survival and Jewish speech communities, investigating difficult questions about language varieties and choices in speech and writing.

ISBN-13
9781107699953
ISBN-10
1107699959
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2014
Publication date
2014-03-27
Pages
373
Dimensions
224x151x20
Weight
548