Journal of Jewish Languages

Editors: Ofra Tirosh-Becker,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Sarah Bunin Benor, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion

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The peer-reviewed Journal of Jewish Languages (JJL) constitutes a venue for academic research in the multifaceted field of Jewish Languages. Jewish languages are the languages spoken and written by Jews in their communities around the world. Among these are Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Arabic, Jewish Aramaic, Judeo-Italian, Judeo-French, Judeo-Provençal, Judeo-Persian, Jewish English, Jewish Malayalam and more. Although these belong to a variety of genealogical language families, Jewish languages have common linguistic features, thus constituting a distinct field of research.

The Journal of Jewish Languages encourages comparative studies across the different Jewish languages as well as in-depth linguistic and philological research of the individual languages and their varieties. The JJL promotes studies that focus on diverse aspects, such as the interactions of these languages with other languages (especially Hebrew, Aramaic, and the surrounding non-Jewish languages), sociolinguistics, translation traditions, and more.
Articles in this journal focus on medieval, modern, and contemporary Jewish languages and are based on manuscripts, printed material, orally transmitted translations, field work recordings, online speech samples, and other sources.

Research on Hebrew will be considered for publication in JJL only if it relates to other languages Jews have spoken or written.

The JJL encourages diverse methodological and theoretical approaches from dialectology, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, historical linguistics, formal linguistics, philology, and other fields.

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Category:

Language and Linguistics - Other Languages

BIC2:

Jewish studies, Semitic languages

Current:

Volume: 1 (2013)

Number of issues:

ISSN:

2213-4387

E-ISSN:

2213-4638

Publication Type:

Journal, E-Journal

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

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Biographical note

Ofra Tirosh-Becker, Ph.D. (2000), is the Chair of the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Languages at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and is also the Head of its Center for the Study of Jewish Languages and Literatures. She is an advisory-member of The Academy of the Hebrew Language, a co-editor of the scientific journal Massorot. Her research focuses on the contact between Hebrew and Arabic, Rabbinic Hebrew in Karaite writings, North-African Judeo-Arabic, Algerian Judeo-Arabic dialectology, and medieval and modern Judeo-Arabic translations of the Bible and of post-biblical literature.

Sarah Bunin Benor, Ph.D. (2004), is Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. While still in graduate school she founded, produced, and edited the Jewish Language Research Website and the Jewish Languages Mailing List, both of which serve as important platforms for the field of Jewish Languages. She has published dozens of articles on Jewish languages, sociolinguistics, and American Jews, including several in prestigious journals such as Language, Jewish Quarterly Review, Journal of Sociolinguistics, and Jewish Social Studies.

Editorial Board

Marion Aptroot, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Cyril Aslanov,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Benjamin Hary, Emory University, Atlanta GA, USA
Hezi Mutzafi, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Aaron Rubin, Penn State University, USA
Ora R. Schwarzwald, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Norman Stillman, University of Oklahoma, USA

Book Review Editor
Tsvi Sadan (Tsuguya Sasaki), Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Advisory Board
Moshe Bar-Asher, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Joshua Blau, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
David Bunis, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Joseph Chetrit, University of Haifa, Israel
Joshua Fishman, Yeshiva University, New York, NY, USA
Otto Jastrow, Tallinn University, Estonia
Geoffrey Khan, University of Cambridge, UK
Maria Modena, Università degli Studi of Milan, Italy
Bernard Spolsky, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Readership

Scholars from the following fields: Jewish languages; linguistics of specific language families (such as Semitic, Romance, Germanic, and Slavic); Jewish studies (especially literature, history and culture); translation studies; dialectology; comparative linguistics; sociolinguistics; general linguistics; historical linguistics; Hebrew studies; anthropology.

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