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Jewish Languages and Book Culture

Author: Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, Cesar Merchan-Hamann, Daniel Abrams, Esperanza Alfonso, Jean Baumgarten, Oren Cohen Roman, Shlomi Efrati, Sandra Hajek and Martina Mampieri  

Jewish Languages and Book Culture
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A collection of essays examining the spread of books in Jewish vernacular languages and Hebrew characters, offering an extraordinary insight into the linguistic richness of Jewish life.

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A collection of essays examining the spread of books in Jewish vernacular languages and Hebrew characters, offering an extraordinary insight into the linguistic richness of Jewish life.

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From Cairo Genizah to Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, the spread of books in Jewish vernacular languages and Hebrew characters offers us an extraordinary insight into the linguistic richness of Jewish life.

For over two millennia, Jewish communities have used languages other than Hebrew for daily oral communication, including Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-French, Judeo-Italian, Yiddish and Ladino. They used the Hebrew alphabet to write these languages down and developed sophisticated systems to transmit texts in them. Many of these vernacular languages became also languages of book culture. Produced and sold cheaply, using the tools of the book cultures of host societies, these publications reached a wide audience.

The Bodleian Libraries' collections host an unparalleled collection of texts in Judeo-languages, giving us a picture of the works created and of the specific ways in which they were produced and communicated. Since some of the languages are now extinct or moribund, these manuscripts and books are also important testimonies to cultures that are no more. Generously illustrated and ranging in time from the Middle Ages to the Emancipation, this collection of essays showcases important hallmarks in the intellectual and social history of the Jews.

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'This book offers an engrossing look at several Jewish languages, whose oldest manuscripts are mostly held at the Bodleian Library. The book is extremely well illustrated and documented, making it both interesting and authoritative to read.'

-- Jay Levinson

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About the Author

Judith Olszowy-Schlanger is President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford. Judith Olszowy-Schlanger is President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford. 

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Publisher
Bodleian Library
Published
4th July 2024
Pages
256
ISBN
9781851246328

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