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George Jochnowitz

Academic Affiliation

• College of Staten Island, City University of New York (emeritus), United States

Contact Information

• Email: jochnowitz @ mail.csi.cuny.edu / george @ jochnowitz.net
• Website: http://www.jochnowitz.net/

Research Interests

Judeo-Italian

• Jochnowitz, G. 2006. Judeo-Italian, Primo Levi's Grandmother Tongue. Midstream 52/4: 30-32.
• Jochnowitz, G. 2002. Judeo-Italian: Italian Dialect or Jewish Language? In S. G. Pugliese (ed.). The Most Ancient of Minorities: The Jews of Italy. Westport, CT & London: Greenwood Press. 119-122.
• Jochnowitz, G. 1995. Review of Una traduzione giudeo-romanesca del libro di Giona by L. Cuomo. Romance Philology 48/3: 297-300.
• Jochnowitz, G. 1985. Had Gadya in Judeo-Italian and Shuadit (Judeo-Provençal). In J. A. Fishman (ed.), Readings in the Sociology of Jewish Languages. Leiden: Brill. 241-45.
• Jochnowitz, G. 1981. Judeo-Italian Lexical Items Collected by Zalman Yovely. In Bono Homini Donum: Essays in Historical Linguistics in Memory of J. Alexander Kerns. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 143-57.
• Jochnowitz, G. 1981. Religion and Taboo in Lason Akodesh (Judeo-Piedmontese). International Journal of the Sociology of Language 30: 106-17.
• Jochnowitz, G. 1974. Parole di origine romanza ed ebraica in giudeo-italiano. Atti del XIV Congresso internazionale di linguistica e filologia romanza. Naples: Machiaroli. 117-27. Reprinted in 1974 in La Rassegna mensile di Israel 40/5: 212-219.
• Jochnowitz, G. 1976. Formes meridionales dans les dialectes des juifs de l'Italie centrale. Actes du XIIIe Congres international de linguistique et philologie romanes. Quebec. 527-42. Reprinted in 1972 without maps as Forme meridionali nei dialetti degli ebrei dell'Italia centrale in La Rassegna mensile di Israel 38: 424-429.
• Jochnowitz, G. 1974. Review of Italian Texts in Hebrew Characters: Problems of Interpretation by A. Freedman. Romance Philology 28: 213-217.

Judeo-Provençal

• Jochnowitz, G. 2005. Judeo-Provençal? Yes, Judeo-Provençal. Midstream 51/4: 12-14.
• Jochnowitz, G. 1985. Had Gadya in Judeo-Italian and Shuadit (Judeo-Provençal). In J. A. Fishman (ed.), Readings in the Sociology of Jewish Languages. Leiden: Brill. 241-45.
• Jochnowitz, G. 1981. ...Who Made Me a Woman. Commentary 71/4: 63-64.
• Jochnowitz, G. 1978. Shuadit: la langue juive de Provence. Archives juives 14: 63-67.

Comparative Jewish Linguistics

• Jochnowitz, G. 2008. Yiddish? Why Don't We Speak Judeo-French? Midstream 54/4/: 32-34.
• Jochnowitz, G. 2007. The Yiddish Kvetch: Relating Language to Culture. Midstream 53/4: 29-30.
• Jochnowitz, G. 2004. The Relationship of Yiddish to Other Jewish Languages: With Hebrew as a Source of Euphemism. Jewish Currents 58/4: 15-17.
• Jochnowitz, G. 2003. Ladino Lives. Midstream 49/5: 7-8.
• Jochnowitz, G. 1999. The Joys of Yiddish Revisited (Review of The Dictionary of Popular Yiddish Words, Phrases, and Proverbs by F. Kogos. Jewish Currents 53/1: 34-36.
• Jochnowitz, G. 1996. Review of Language in Time of Revolution by B. Harshav. AJS Review 21/1: 190-193.
• Jochnowitz, G. 1994. A Yearning for Yiddish (Review article discussing The Ashkenazic Jews: A Slavo-Turkic People in Search of a Jewish Identity by P. Wexler and Yiddish II: An Intermediate and Advanced Textbook by M. Schaechter). Midstream 40/7: 35-38.
• Jochnowitz, G. 1981. ...Who Made Me a Woman. Commentary 71/4: 63-64.
• Jochnowitz, G. 1981. Ladino. Midstream 27/2: 29-32.
• Jochnowitz, G. 1981. Review of History of the Yiddish Language by M. Weinreich, translated by S. Noble with the assistance of J. A. Fishman. Language 57/3: 741-744.
• Jochnowitz, G. 1979. Some Jewish Languages. Moment 40: 39-40.
• Jochnowitz, G. 1978. Judeo-Romance Languages. In H. Paper (ed.), Jewish Languages: Theme and Variations Cambridge: Association for Jewish Studies. 65-74.
• Jochnowitz, G. 1970. Review of The Field of Yiddish: Studies in Language, Folklore, and Literature, Third collection edited by M. I. Herzog, W. Ravid & U. Weinreich. Language 46/4: 938-940.
• Jochnowitz, G. 1968. Bilingualism and Dialect Mixture among Lubavitcher Hasidic Children. American Speech 43/3: 188-200. Reprinted in 1981 in J. A. Fishman (ed.), Never Say Die: A Thousand Years of Yiddish in Jewish Life and Letters. The Hague: Mouton. 721-737.