Contact between Textual Hebrew/Aramaic and Diaspora Jewish Languages

When we started this journal eight years ago, we envisioned that it would feature articles on many Jewish languages, written by scholars around the world.Indeed, issues 1-7 included articles on 17 different Jewish languages, as well as a few articles about multiple languages.The authors of these articles reside in 12 countries: 63% in Israel, 19% in the US, 17% in Europe, and 1% in East Asia.This thematic issue continues this diverse orientation with articles by scholars around the world about Jewish English, Judeo-Italian, Judeo-Spanish, and Yiddish, as well as one comparative analysis of Yiddish and Judezmo (Judeo-Spanish).In addition, this issue includes a review essay about Judeo-Arabic and a review of a dictionary of the Hebrew-Aramaic component of multiple Jewish languages.Another aspiration of ours was that the Journal of Jewish Languages would further our understanding of phenomena that many Jewish languages share.Previous articles have explored the influence of Jewish languages on Modern Hebrew, especially in our thematic double issue edited by Edit Doron, z"l, entitled "Language Contact and the Development of Modern Hebrew" (3.1-2 (2015): 3-348).The current double issue explores the influence of Hebrew and Aramaic on Jewish languages, a phenomenon common in most Jewish communities throughout history.Whatever languages Jews have spoken (e.g., Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian, Jewish French), they have generally maintained Hebrew and Aramaic for liturgical recitation, study of biblical and rabbinic texts, and other purposes.Such language contact has led to influences in their spoken and written languages, including loanwords, calque translations, and orthographic systems.This collection of articles explores these outcomes of language contact by analyzing lexicon, morphosyntax, phonology, orthography, sociolinguistic variation, and literary representation

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