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| | Jewish languages - definition of Jewish languages in Encyclopedia |
 | | In addition to the native Jewish language of Hebrew, Jewish communities have frequently adopted the language of the surrounding community, but due to their segregation it often developed and diverged to form a dialect or a separate language. | | | Jews maintained a belief that Hebrew was God's "language" as well (as it was the language God uses in the Torah itself), hence its name "lashon hakodesh" ("Holy language" or "tongue"). | | | The Targum and much of the Talmud is written in Aramaic; later in the Middle Ages, most Jewish literary activity was carried out in Judeo-Arabic: Arabic written in the Hebrew alphabet; this is the language Maimonides wrote in. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Jewish_languages
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| | wiki/Modern Hebrew Definition / wiki/Modern Hebrew Research |
| | It is the original language of some parts of the Bible; it has been the language of administration of empires, and the language of divine worship. | | | Ashkenazi The Ashkenazi Hebrew language is a descendant of Biblical Hebrew favored for liturgical use by Ashkenazi Jewish practice. | | | Since Hebrew is the original language of the Hebrew Bible (known as the Torah and Tanakh), it is therefore a language that has always been central to Judaism and valued by the Jewish people for over three thousand years, (and later by Christian scholars as well).... |
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http://www.elresearch.com/wiki/Modern_Hebrew
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| | Aramaic language - Psychology Central |
| | Jewish Middle Babylonian is also the language behind the Babylonian system of pointing (marking of vowels in an otherwise mainly consonantal text) of the Hebrew Bible and its Targum. | | | The language is written in a cursive script that is the precursor to the modern Arabic alphabet. | | | Much later, Arsacid became the liturgical language of the Mandaean religion, Mandaic. |
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http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Aramaic
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| | Beth Hatefutsoth - Related Links |
| | Jewish Aramaic is a generic term describing dialects and variants of Aramaic, a language closely related to Hebrew and belonging to the western branch of the Semitic family of languages. | | | Hebrew was revived as a spoken language during the nineteenth century, becoming part of the endeavor to re-establish a Jewish national home in the land of Israel. | | | It is related to Tadjiki Persian, a language belonging to the Iranian group of Indo-European languages and is close to Farsi and Judeo-Persian. |
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http://www.bh.org.il/Links/JewishLangs.asp
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| | The Jewish-Languages List . Archives |
| | Subject: Languages for Jewish texts Aramaic was used as a language for some halakhic works during the Geonic period, and of course the Zohar was written in Aramaic in the 13th century. | | | Subject: Languages for Jewish Texts (Cohen) From: Aryeh Cohen Subject: Re: languages Well, its an open question as to what you mean by texts with Kedusha, but the Zohar was written in a "dialect" of Aramaic; various Rishonim wrote their commentaries in pretty straightforward Aramaic (i.e. | | | Ofra Tirosh-Becker Department of Hebrew Language and The Center for the Study of Jewish Languages and Literatures The Hebrew University Mt. |
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http://petrarch.freeservers.com/jewishlanglist.html
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| | In the Diaspora, the triumph of secularization and the concomitant spread of general education in Jewish communities, including highly traditional ones, led to the gradual abandonment of Jewish languages and the adoption of the national vernaculars and the modes of speech of the surrounding cultures. | | | The Background to Establishing the Association By the end of the twentieth century, the traditional Jewish languages spoken during the past millenium by numerous Jewish communities had undergone a marked decline as living natural communal languages. | | | Encouragement and support of research and teaching of Jewish languages in universities in Israel and abroad through lecture series, conferences and other means. |
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http://shakti.trincoll.edu/~mendele/vol03/vol03.039.txt
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| | Jewish, Jewish, Everywhere, & not a drop to drink |
| | It is thus the language in which the Holy One, blessed be He, spoke with His prophets, and with His people. | | | But scientifically, the interrelated languages of Hebrews in Canaan are all Canaanite languages no more or less related to each other than the languages spoken by the ethnic Canaanites themselves, and are only also called "Hebrew languages" because they were biblical peoples in the Holy Land who spoke the same language. | | | From a Jewish theological POV, the holy toungue is holy only because that is the language in which the Torah came through Moses. |
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http://simshalom.blogspot.com/2004_07_01_simshalom_archive.html
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| | Jewish Web Index - Make it easier for you to do your personal research |
| | The Hebrew Language began as a string of letters carved by a scribe onto a limestone boulder some 3,000 years ago - the first known example of the Hebrew alphabet. | | | - the greatest Jewish commentator, Rashi, Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki, was an outstanding community leader and decisor who schooled his two daughters because he had no sons. | | | The carved letters dates to the 10th century B. The ability to read Hebrew - even just to decipher the letters - is a great asset to anyone engaged in Jewish genealogy. |
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http://jewishwebindex.com/langauges1.htm
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| | JEWISH: Calendars, Yahrzeit, Hebrew Months, Jewish Holidays, Jewish Languages, Jewish Languages |
| | Note that in Greek this Holiday was referred to as Pentacost. | | | Online Home of the Michigan Jewish Orthodox Community | | | JEWISH: Calendars, Yahrzeit, Hebrew Months, Jewish Holidays, Jewish Languages, Jewish Languages |
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http://uscj.org/metny/middletown/jewish.htm
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| | Jewish Languages -- European |
| | Rabbinical decisions given in Old French, sometimes even language of prayer: Hebrew Gallicized: | | | Old High German became the earliest form of Yiddish, some remnants still known: | | | It is the product of the word for word translation of Hebrew texts -- Biblical and liturgical -- into a Spanish that goes back to the 13th century. |
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http://www.mishkan.com/jewish.lang.european.html
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| | Endangered languages in Europe: report |
| | (a) children speakers: in some places, there are children learning the language, but most of them cease to use it throughout the school years | | | (d) total number of speakers, members of the ethnic group: more that 1,000,000 people in North America have knowledge of the language; approx. | | | Remarks: derives from the language of 15th and 16th century refugees |
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http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/europe_report.html
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| | Wirth-Nesher, H.: Call It English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature. |
| | What at first seems peripheral or vestigial or even pedantic--the uses of Hebrew and Yiddish in American Jewish literature--is shown in a completely persuasive argument to turn to be of the first importance. | | | There is no other student of American Jewish literature who possesses the tools and scholarly rigor to take on this topic, and there is no one else who delivers as abundantly on this promise. | | | Call It English tells a story of preoccupation with pronunciation, diction, translation, the figurality of Hebrew letters, and the linguistic dimension of home and exile in a culture constituted of sacred, secular, familial, and ancestral languages. |
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http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/8068.html
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| | © 2006 Hebrew Union College — Jewish Institute of Religion | | | She teaches about the social science of American Jews, as well as about language and culture. | | | "Talmid Chachams and Tsedeykeses: Language, Learnedness, and Masculinity Among Orthodox Jews." Jewish Social Studies 11/1. |
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http://www.huc.edu/faculty/faculty/benor.shtml
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| | 2004-2005 program announcement |
| | What are the connections between Jewish literature and other ideological movements? | | | Language and Identity: Where does the Jewishness of Jewish literature reside? | | | Until now, literary scholars have had little collective opportunity to address modern Jewish literature on its own terms, rather than as a subsidiary part of history or religion, and even less to engage in a comparative study of all the modern Jewish literatures and the various critical approaches that have been applied to them. |
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http://www.cjs.upenn.edu/program/2004-2005/announce.html
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| | We have to help the Hebrew language come alive. | | | Language has been a barrier to communication among many nationalities. | | | Back to the home page for Jewish groups |
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http://www.geocities.com/jewishgroups/2Language.html
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| | The Ida & Samuel P. Mandell Institute for the Study of Jewish Languages Gratz College Jewish Education |
| | The Samuel P. Mandell Foundation was founded in 1955 as a philanthropic trust, providing support to both secular and Jewish educational institutions. | | | In keeping with their tradition of promoting Jewish learning, the trustees, who are the children of Ida and Samuel Mandell, established the Ida and Samuel P. Mandell Institute for the Study of Jewish Languages in May of 1998 as a tribute to their late parents and to encourage the study of Hebrew and Yiddish. | | | The Ida and Samuel P. Mandell Institute for the Study of Jewish Languages |
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http://www.gratz.edu/page3673.aspx
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| | Jewish Language Research Website |
| | This website displays information about several Jewish languages, as well as about some of the researchers who have written about them. | | | Throughout the world, wherever Jews have lived, they have spoken and/or written differently from the non-Jews around them. | | | The "Languages" page presents descriptions of over a dozen Jewish languages, including fundamentals of their history, linguistics, and literature. |
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http://www.jewish-languages.org
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| | Humbul full record view for -- Jewish language research website |
| | The languages featured include: Hebrew; Yiddish; Jewish-Aramaic; Jewish Malayalam; and Judeo-Arabic, French, Greek, Iranian, Italian, Persian, Portuguese, Provençal, and Spanish. | | | The Jewish Language Research Website is a platform for research into the diversity of Jewish languages, offering introductory information on a good number of these languages and bringing together international researchers working in this field. | | | Humbul full record view for -- Jewish language research website |
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http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/full2.php?id=9645
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| | Jewish-Languages Mailing List |
| | Postings to the list may be about the structure or use of any Jewish language or about phenomena that several have in common. | | | The "jewish-languages" mailing list is a forum for academic discussion of Jewish languages, including Hebrew. | | | This includes any system of speech or writing used by Jews that differs somewhat from the non-Jewish language(s) around it. |
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http://www.jewish-languages.org/ml
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