Andrzej Kątny / Izabela Olszewska / Aleksandra Twardowska (eds.): Ashkenazim und Sephardim: Language Miscellanea (= Sprach- und Kulturkontakte in Europas Mitte. Studien zur Slawistik und Germanistik 7). Peter Lang, Berlin et al. 2019.
ISBN 978-3-631-74987-6 (Print)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/b14945

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Zum Buch – About the book:
The collection of articles chosen by the editors presents a broad variety of issues connected with Jewish languages (Judeo-Spanish, Yiddish) and co-territorial languages used by Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews in different places and periods. Thus, the book contains both strictly linguistic and sociolinguistic descriptions (including the aspects of evaluating language, language in contact or linguistic identity), the presentation of languages in literary works (and their translations) from different periods, as well as lexicographical and cultural observations. This thematic variety shows opportunities for the research into the languages of both Jewish groups and inspires other scientific projects in this field.

Zu den Herausgebern – About the editors:
Andrzej Kątny is Professor of German linguistics at the University of Gdańsk (Poland). His research interests include German linguistics, Polish-German contrastive studies, and contact linguistics.

Izabela Olszewska is Assistant Professor at the Institute of German Philology at the University in Gdańsk (Poland). Her academic interests involve the language and culture of Ashkenazi Jews, Holocaust, media linguistics, and culture of remembrance.

Aleksandra Twardowska is Assistant Professor at the Department of Balkan Studies at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland). Her academic interests involve the language, culture and history of Balkan Jews, Jewish and Slavic anthroponomy, and Balkan languages.

Inhalt – Contents:
Julie Scolnik
Yiddish and Judeo-Spanish Speakers and the Acquisition of English in Immigrant America During the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Izabela Olszewska & Aleksandra Twardowska
A Positive Image of Yiddish and Judeo-Spanish in the Jewish Press of the First Half of the 20th Century: An Overview

Jonna Rock
Sarajevo Sephardim and Their Linguistic Identification

Aitor García Moreno & Dora Mancheva
Eating and Drinking among Bulgarian Sephardim at the Turn of the 20th Century

Agnieszka August-Zarębska & Tomasz Zarębski
Language as Oikos: The Case of Margalit Matittiahu’s Poetry

Katja Šmid
Sefer ha-Berit in Ladino: Adaptations and Translations of a Hebrew Best-Seller for the Sephardi Reading Public

Magdalena Sitarz & Andrzej Pawelec
Yitskhok Katsenelson’s Dos lid fun oysgehargetn yidishn folk: A Story of the Manuscripts and Editions

Sandra Birzer
The Yiddish Subjective Resultative Construction Based on the Adverbial Participle: Convergences and Divergences with Co-Territorial Languages

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