Jewish interlinguistics: Facts and Conceptual Framework

Law Enforcement in the Age of Big Data and Surveillance Intermediaries: Transparency Challenges

“…Its use during the major earthquake in Japan in 2011 60 is well documented, and it has been used to communicate about other natural disasters such as Hurricane Sandy, 61 and the Alberta wildfires in 2016. 62 Murthy observes that social media communications about such events often occur more rapidly than with conventional media, 63 and they may cover a range of different topics that are important and that may not be central in mainstream media reporting. 64 information must be distinguished from publicly available information (available for the public to reuse).…”

Towards a New Understanding of Jewish Language in the Twenty‐First Century

“…While ancient and medieval rabbinic scholars were interested in linguistic issues surrounding Hebrew holy texts, research on the phenomenon of Diaspora Jewish languages began in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (see surveys in Wexler 1981, especially p. 100, and Sunshine 1995). Influenced partly by political interests, amateur and trained scholars began to study Yiddish in comparison to languages used by Jews elsewhere in the world.…”

“…The late 1970s and 1980s saw a slew of edited volumes that dealt with several Jewish languages (Paper 1978; Rabin et al. 1979; Fishman 1981a, 1985a, 1987; Gold 1989), a short‐lived journal (Gold & Prager 1981–1987), and progress toward a unified theoretical understanding of Jewish language based on comparative analysis (Bunis 1981; Gold 1981a,b; Fishman 1981b, 1985b; Rabin 1981; Wexler 1981). It was in these years that the study of Jewish languages transitioned from the realm of isolated publications to a small academic field.…”

“…It was in these years that the study of Jewish languages transitioned from the realm of isolated publications to a small academic field. Several scholars offered suggestions for what this field should be called, including Jewish interlinguistics, Jewish intralinguistics, and linguistics of Jewish languages (see Bunis 1981; Gold 1981a; Rabin 1981; Wexler 1981; Fishman 1985b; Alvarez‐Péreyre & Baumgarten 2003). I use the term ‘comparative Jewish linguistics’, as it is transparent and emphasizes the comparative nature of the enterprise.…”

Reclaiming Sacred Sparks: Linguistic Syncretism and Gendered Language Shift among Hasidic Jews in New York

“…There has been little attention, however, to how language has been part of the hyperbolization of boundaries in this historically multilingual community. While the field of Jewish sociolinguistics has made important contributions to understandings of historical and changing relationships among the languages of Ashkenazic Jews (e.g., Fishman 1981Fishman , 1985Wexler 1981;Gilman 1991;Glinert and Shilhav 1991), there has been very little ethnographic research in communities where Yiddish continues as a vernacular, especially on "normative pragmatics in face to face interaction" (Fishman 1981:53).…”