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Vernacular Voices : Language and Identity in Medieval French Jewish Communities.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Jewish Culture and Contexts SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (273 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812205350
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Vernacular VoicesDDC classification:
  • 492.4/7
LOC classification:
  • PJ4995.F8 -- F83 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Translations and Transcription and Typographical Conventions -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Medieval French Jewish Community in Its Linguistic Context -- Chapter 1. Language and Identity -- Chapter 2. Speech and Silence, Male and Female in Jewish-Christian Relations: Blois, 1171 -- Chapter 3. Texts of Two Colors -- Chapter 4. Hebrew-French Wedding Songs: Expressions of Identity -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Hebraico-French Glosses and Text -- Appendix 2. The Medieval Jewish Wedding Song 'Uri liqra'ti yafah, gentis kallah einoreie -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: Applying analytical strategies from linguistics, literature, and history, Kirsten Fudeman demonstrates that language played a central role in the formation, expression, and maintenance of medieval Jewish identity and that it brought Christians and Jews together even as it set them apart.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Translations and Transcription and Typographical Conventions -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Medieval French Jewish Community in Its Linguistic Context -- Chapter 1. Language and Identity -- Chapter 2. Speech and Silence, Male and Female in Jewish-Christian Relations: Blois, 1171 -- Chapter 3. Texts of Two Colors -- Chapter 4. Hebrew-French Wedding Songs: Expressions of Identity -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Hebraico-French Glosses and Text -- Appendix 2. The Medieval Jewish Wedding Song 'Uri liqra'ti yafah, gentis kallah einoreie -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

Applying analytical strategies from linguistics, literature, and history, Kirsten Fudeman demonstrates that language played a central role in the formation, expression, and maintenance of medieval Jewish identity and that it brought Christians and Jews together even as it set them apart.

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