David N. Meyers et al.
The Jewish Quarterly Review Special Issue: Language.
University of Pennsylvania, 2006. Volume 96, No. 4 (Fall 2006) iv/pages 467-522.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is new.
Contents:
"Language and the Jews" by David N. Myers; "The Future of Yiddish -- in English: Field Notes from the New Ashkenaz" by Dara Horn; "Orienting Language: Reflections on the Study of Arabic in the Yishiv" by Liora R. Halperin; "Jewish Use of Greek in the Middle Ages: Evidence from Passover "Haggadoth" from the Cairo Genizah" by Nicholas de Lange; "Symmetric Fates: Secular Yiddish and Ladino Culture Comparison" by Sarah Abrevaya Stein; "The Tangled Road to Legalization: The Admission of the German Language in Musical Performance in Israel" by Joshoash Hirshberg & Na'ama Ramot; "Yehuda Amichai's Old-New Words: Five Fragments and a Note" by Leon Wieseltier; "Embedded Midrashim in Samaritan Piyyutim" by Moshe Florentin; ""They have Ears But Do Not Hear": Gendered Access to Hebrew and the Medieval Hebrew-French Wedding Song" by Kirsten A. Fudeman. Plus review essays.