This handbook, the first of its kind, includes descriptions of the ancient and modern Jewish languages other than Hebrew, including historical and linguistic overviews, numerous text samples, and comprehensive bibliographies.
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Lily Kahn, Ph.D. (2008), UCL, is Lecturer in Hebrew at that university. Publications include The Verbal System in Late Enlightenment Hebrew (2009), Colloquial Yiddish (2012), and A Grammar of the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew Tale (2015). Aaron D. Rubin, Ph.D. (2004), Harvard University, is Malvin and Lea Bank Professor of Jewish Studies, Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies, and Linguistics at Penn State University. Author of numerous books and articles, he was also an associate editor of Brills Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics (2013). Contributors are: Sarah Bunin Benor, Siam Bhayro, David Bunis, Habib Borjian, Joseph Chetrit, Evelyn Dean-Olmsted, Stephen Dörr, Reuven Enoch, Steven E. Fassberg, Ophira Gamliel, Brad Sabin Hill, Henryk Jankowski, George Jochnowitz, Lily Kahn, Geoffrey Khan, Marc Kiwitt, P. Joshua Klagsbrun Lebenswerd, Julia Krivoruchko, Laurent Mignon, Judith Rosenhouse, Aaron D. Rubin, Susana Skura, Adam Strich, Devon Strolovitch, Anbessa Teferra, and Anna Verschik.
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