Library of Electronic Books and Articles on Jewish Languages
Compiled by Sarah Bunin Benor & Tsvi Sadan (Tsuguya Sasaki)
Electronic Books Available Publicly
- Bacher, W. 1895. Die Anfänge der hebräischen Grammatik. Leipzig: Brockhaus.
- Bauer, H. & Leander, P. 1927. Grammatik des Biblisch-Aramäischen. Halle: Niemeyer.
- Bernstein, I. 1908. ייִדישע שפּריכװערטער און רעדנסאַרטן. New York: Brider Kaminski.
- Blondheim, D. S. 1925. Les parlers judéo-romans et la Vetus Latina: étude sur les rapports entre les traductions bibliques en langue romane des Juifs au moyen âge et les anciennes versions. Paris: Champion.
- Brown, F. et al. 1907. A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
- Buhl, F. P. W. 1895. Wilhelm Gesenius' hebräisches und aramäisches Handwörterbuch über das Alte Testament. Leipzig: Vogel.
- Cowley, A. E. 1910. Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Efroykin, I. 1951. אױפֿקום און אומקום פֿון ייִדישע גלות-שפּראַכן און דיאַלעקטן. Paris: Kiyem.
- Harkavy, A. 1928. ייִדיש-ענגליש-העברעיִשער װערטערבוך. New York: Hebrew Publishing Company.
- Joüon, P. 1923. Grammaire de l'hébreu biblique. Rome: Institut Biblique Pontifical.
- Joffe, J. A. & Mark, Y. (eds.). 1961. גרױסער װערטערבוך פֿון דער ייִדישער שפּראַך 1. New York: Committee for the Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language.
- Joffe, J. A. & Mark, Y. (eds.). 1966. גרױסער װערטערבוך פֿון דער ייִדישער שפּראַך 2. New York: Committee for the Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language.
- Joffe, J. A. & Mark, Y. (eds.). 1971. גרױסער װערטערבוך פֿון דער ייִדישער שפּראַך 3. New York: Committee for the Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language.
- Joffe, J. A. & Mark, Y. (eds.). 1980. גרױסער װערטערבוך פֿון דער ייִדישער שפּראַך 4. New York: Committee for the Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language.
- Kautsch, E. 1909. Wilhelm Gesenius' hebräische Grammatik. Leipzig: Vogel.
- Levy, J. 1876. Neuhebräisches und chaldäisches Wörterbuch über die Talmudim und Midraschim. Leipzig: Brockhaus.
- Lipschütz, E. M. 1920. Vom lebendigen Hebräisch. Berlin: Jüdischer Verlag.
- Loewe, H. 1911. Die Sprachen der Juden. Cologne: Jüdischer Verlag.
- Rejzen, Z. 1920. גראַמאַטיק פֿון דער ייִדישער שפּראַך. Vilnius: Shreberk.
- Rubsztein, B. 1922. די אַנטשטײונג און אַנטװיקלונג פֿון דער ייִדישער שפּראַך. Warsaw: Shul un Lebn.
- Stutchkoff, N. 1950. דער אוצר פֿון דער ייִדישער שפּראַך. New York: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
- Weinreich, M. 1974. אױסגעקליבענע שריפֿטן. Buenos Aires: Ateneo Literario en el IWO.
- Zaretzki, I. 1926. פּראַקטישע ייִדישע גראַמאַטיק. Moscow: Shul un Bukh.
- Zaretzki, I. 1929. ייִדישע גראַמאַטיק. Vilnius: Kletskin.
- Zunz, L. 1837. Namen der Juden. Leipzig: Fort.
Electronic Books Available Commercially
- Borovoya, O. 2011. Modern Ladino Culture: Press, Belles Lettres, and Theater in the Late Ottoman Empire. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- Ehrlich, M. A. (ed.). 2008. Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.
- Fellman, J. 1973. The Revival of a Classical Tongue: Eliezer Ben Yehuda and the Modern Hebrew Language. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
- Fishman, J. A. (ed.). 1981. Never Say Die! A Thousand Years of Yiddish in Jewish Life and Letters. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
- Hary, B. H. 2009. Translating Religion: Linguistic Analysis of Judeo-Arabic Sacred Texts from Egypt. Leiden: Brill.
- Herzog, M. et al. (eds.). 1992. The Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry, Volume 1: Historical and Theoretical Foundations. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
- Herzog, M. et al. (eds.). 1995. The Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry, Volume 2: Research Tools. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
- Herzog, M. et al. (eds.). 2000. The Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry, Volume 3: The Eastern Yiddish - Western Yiddish Continuum. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
- Herzog, M. et al. (eds.). 2008. EYDES (Evidence of Yiddish Documented in European Societies). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
- Isurin, L. 2011. Russian Diaspora: Culture, Identity, and Language Change. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
- Kuzar, R. 2001. Hebrew and Zionism: A Discourse Analytic Cultural Study. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
- Lowenstein, S. M. 2000. The Jewish Cultural Tapestry: International Jewish Folk Traditions. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Myhill, J. 2004. Language in Jewish Society: Towards a New Understanding. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
- Rosén, H. 1977. Contemporary Hebrew. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
- Saulson, S. B. 1979. Institutionalized Language Planning: Documents and Analysis of the Revival of Hebrew. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
- Shandler, J. 2005. Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language & Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Singerman, R. 2001. Jewish Given Names and Family Names: A New Bibliography. Leiden: Brill.
- Singerman, R. 2001. Jewish Translation History: A Bibliography of Bibliographies and Studies. Leiden: Brill.
- Timm, E. 1999. Matronymika im aschkenasischen Kulturbereich: Ein Beitrag zur Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte der europäischen Juden. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
- Timm, E. 2005. Historische jiddische Semantik: Die Bibelübersetzungssprache als Faktor der Auseinanderentwicklung des jiddischen und des deutschen Wortschatzes. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
- Timm, E. (ed.). 2011. Birnbaum, Salomo A.: Ein Leben für die Wissenschaft / A Lifetime of Achievement, Volume 1: Linguistik / Linguistics. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
- Weiser, K. & Fogel, J. (eds.). 2010. Czernowitz at 100: The First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
- Wexler, P. (ed.). 1990. Studies in Yiddish Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
- Wexler, P. 2002. Two-tiered Relexification in Yiddish: Jews, Sorbs, Khazars, and the Kiev-Polessian Dialect. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
- Zuckermann, G. 2003. Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Electronic Articles in Researchers' Online Archives
- Benor, Sarah Bunin: United States; sociolinguistics, American Jewish English, Yiddish, Ladino / Judezmo / Judeo-Spanish, Jewish languages / comparative Jewish linguistics, language contact
- Bunis, David M.: Israel; Judezmo studies, Yiddish studies, comparative Jewish linguistics
- Dekel, Nurit: Netherlands; spoken Israeli Hebrew, morphology, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, semantics, syntax
- Held, Michal: Israel; Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) language, literature, culture and identity
- Jochnowitz, George: United States; Judeo-Italian, Judeo-Provençal, comparative Jewish linguistics
- Katz, Dovid: Lithuania; Yiddish
- Romero, Rey: United States; Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Spanish dialectology, Judeo-Spanish attrition, Judeo-Romance languages, Spanish in contact with non-Romance languages
- Sadan, Tsvi (Sasaki, Tsuguya): Israel; Modern Hebrew, Modern Yiddish, Esperanto, morphology, lexicon, contact linguistics, sociolinguistics, onomastics
- Ussishkin, Adam: United States; Modern Hebrew
- Zuckermann, Ghil'ad: Australia / China / Israel; language, culture and identity, language contact, historical linguistics, contact lexicology, linguistic genetics, hybridity and evolution, Israeli language, society and religion, language revival (e.g. Hebrew) and survival (e.g. Yiddish), linguistic borrowing, language planning, language academies, lexical engineering, purism, language revitalization (Maori, Aboriginal languages), sociolinguistics, Jewish civilization, semantics, morphology, lexicography (dictionary making and evaluating), pidgins and creoles, multiple causation, camouflage, relexification, etymythology (folk-etymology), socio-philology, theo-linguistics, deifying Zionism and defying religion through ideoglogically-manipulative secularization of Hebrew within Israeli, applied linguistics: applied lexicology, psychometrics, mnemotechnics, English as the world's language, teaching a second language through songs, poetics, poetry (e.g. Yehuda Amichai), constrained literature (e.g. palindromic stories, bilingual homophonous poems), logology, Israeli songs, film, politics and academia, Israel and the Middle East, globalization, internationalization
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