Jewish Languages and Book Culture - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1851246320 ISBN 13 : 9781851246328

Editeur : Bodleian Library, 2024

Synopsis

A fascinating collection examining the spread of books in Jewish vernacular languages and Hebrew characters.

From Cairo Genizah to Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, the spread of books in Jewish vernacular languages and Hebrew characters offers 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. However, they used the Hebrew alphabet to write these languages down and developed sophisticated systems to transmit texts in them. Many of these vernacular languages also became languages of book culture.

The Bodleian Libraries' collections host an unparalleled collection of texts in Judeo-languages, giving a picture of how these works were produced and communicated. As some of these languages are now extinct or moribund, these writings are also important testimonies to lost cultures. 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 Jewish culture.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

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

César Merchán-Hamann is the Victor Blank Hebraica and Judaica curator in the Bodleian Library and director of the Leopold Muller Memorial Library at the University of Oxford.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bodleian Library
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1851246320
• ISBN 13: 9781851246328
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Olszowy-Schlanger Judith, Merchan-Hamann Cesar
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible