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Has anyone come across scholarly work that traces the recurrent historical claim — found among some

I'm passing along this open house invitation from NYU Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies. A

We are happy to announce the publication of issue 13.1 of the Journal of Jewish Languages (June 2025)

You probably know this, but his works are available on HebrewBooks.org: https://beta.hebrewbooks.org/

Call for proposals: The role of “heritage words” in Jewish language practices across time, space, and

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Of possible interest to group members. -- Dr Uri Horesh Lecturer in Arabic, Director of Postgraduate

We are happy to announce the publication of issue 12.2 of the Journal of Jewish Languages (October

Hello Hananya, Here at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Prof. Ofra Tirosh-Becker teaches several

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The Iranian language family has included many Jewish languages, such as Judeo-Persian, Juhuri (Judeo-

hi, I'm an ethnomusicologist, and interested in contrafacta of Adon Olam. Do you have (1) a

Reposted from H-Judaic: Judeo-Greek across the Centuries: Tracing Greek-speaking Jews [Announcement]

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From Lily Kahn <l.k...@ucl.ac.uk>: =============================== Jewish Languages: Diglossia

Routledge is starting a new book series on Jewish languages, edited by Lily Kahn and Aaron Rubin:

Lily Kahn and Sonya Yampolskaya are guest editing a special issue of the journal Religions on

nice On Thursday, June 6, 2024 at 1:18:00 AM UTC-4 Hannah Pressman wrote: Dear colleagues, The HUC-

Yiddish: אָנגעבלאָזן ווי אַן אינדיק /ongeblozn vi an indik/ - puffed up אָקס /oks/ - stupid person

For me, this theory sounds farfetched, a typical example of a folk etymology that links unrelated

We received this question: "Are you aware of a Ladino or other Sephardic equivalent of the term

We are pleased to announce the publication of the new book Mizmor Le-David: Studies in Jewish

Hi Mr Varady, Joined the group today and came across this post. Went through the transcription, and

Hello, many years ago I take a paper from someone and even if I check the alphabet I could not

Dear colleagues, I am pleased to share about the Jewish Language Project's first event of 2024!

The name Ahuva does not appear in my book because I never met it in any source dealing with the

Dear Jewish Languages List, I just read the sad news that linguist and Yiddish-English translator

The Journal of Jewish Languages is pleased to announce the publication of issue 11.1, edited by Sarah

Hi, I fully agree with Tamás: there is no need to search for a continuous usage: prior to the 20th