Jewish Language Research Website

Selected Bibliography of Printed Resources on Jewish Languages

Sarah Bunin Benor & Tsvi Sadan (Tsuguya Sasaki)

• Avishur, Y. & Morag, S. (eds.). 1992. היסודות העבריים בלשונות היהודים. Haifa: University of Haifa / Jerusalem: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
• Bar-Asher, M. (ed.). 1988. מחקרים בלשונות היהודים. Jerusalem: Misgav Yerushalayim.
• Bar-Asher, M. 2003. בחינות בחקר לשונות היהודים וספרויותיהם. Pe'amim 93: 77-89.
• Birnbaum, S. A. 1971. Jewish Languages. Encyclopaedia Judaica 10: 66-69.
• Birnbaum, S. A. 1979. Yiddish: A Survey and a Grammar, Chapter 1: Jewish Languages. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
• Efroykin, Y. 1951. אױפֿקום און אומקום פֿון ייִדישע גלות-שפּראַכן און דיאַלעקטן. Paris: Farlag Kiyem.
• Fishman, J. A. (ed.). 1981. The Sociology of Jewish Languages. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 30.
• Fishman, J. A. (ed.). 1985. Readings in the Sociology of Jewish Languages. Leiden: Brill.
• Fishman, J. A. (ed.). 1987. The Sociology of Jewish Languages. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 67.
• Gold, D. & Prager, L. (eds.). 1981-1987. Jewish Language Review. Haifa: Association for the Study of Jewish Languages.
• Gold, D. 1989. Jewish Linguistic Studies. Haifa: Association for the Study of Jewish Languages.
• Grözinger, K. E. (ed.). 1998. Sprache und Identität im Judentum. Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz.
• Levi, A. 1979. לשונות יהודיות - במזרח ובמערב. Pe'amim 1: 58-66.
• Loewe, H. 1911. Die Sprachen der Juden. Cologne: Jüdischer Verlag.
• Lowenstein, S. M. 2000. The Jewish Cultural Tapestry: International Jewish Folk Traditions. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Mieses, M. 1915. Die Entstehungsursache der jüdischen Dialekte. Vienna: R. Löwit Verlag.
• Morag, S. et al. (eds.). 1999. Vena Hebraica in Judaeorum Linguis: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Hebrew and Aramaic Elements in Jewish Languages. Milan: Centro Studi Camito-Semitici di Milano.
• Myhill, J. 2004. Language in Jewish Society: Toward a New Understanding. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
• Niger, S. 1941. צװײשפּראַכיקײט פֿון אונדזער ליטעראַטור. Detroit: Luis Lamed Fond far Undzer Literatur in Beyde Shprakhn.
• Niger, S. 1990. Bilingualism in the History of Jewish Literature. Lanham: University Press of America.
• Paper, H. H. (ed.). 1978. Jewish Languages: Theme and Variation. Cambridge, MA: Association for Jewish Studies.
• Prager, L. 1986. A Preliminary Checklist of English Names of Jewish Lects. Jewish Language Review 6.
• Rabin, C. et al. 1979. הלשונות היהודיות - המשותף, המיוחד והבעייתי. Pe'amim 1: 40-57.
• Rubshteyn, B. 1922. די אַנטשטײונג און אַנטװיקלונג פֿון דער ייִדישער שפּראַך. Warsaw: Farlag Shul un Lebn.
• Stillman, N. 1991. Language Patterns in Islamic and Judaic Societies. In S. Wasserstrom (ed.), Islam and Judaism: 1400 Years of Shared Values. Portland: Institute for Judaic Studies in the Pacific Northwest. 41-55.
• Sunshine, A. 1995. History of Jewish Interlinguistics: A Preliminary Outline. In K. R. Jankowsky (ed.), History of Linguistics 1993. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 75-82.
• Weinreich, M. 1973. געשיכטע פֿון דער ייִדישער שפּראַך. New York: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
• Weinreich, M. 1980. History of the Yiddish Language. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Weinreich, M. 2008. History of the Yiddish Language. New Haven: Yale University Press.
• Wexler, P. 1981. Jewish Interlinguistics: Facts and Conceptual Framework. Language 57: 99-149.
• Wexler, P. 2006. Jewish and Non-Jewish Creators of "Jewish" Languages with Special Attention to Judaized Arabic, Chinese, German, Greek, Persian, Portuguese, Slavic (Modern Hebrew/Yiddish), Spanish, and Karaite, and Semitic Hebrew/Ladino: A Collection of Reprinted Articles from Across Four Decades with a Reassessment. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.