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Over the past 80 years, several scholars have called for comparative research on Jewish language varieties.1 In a 1937 Yiddish article about Judezmo (Judeo-Spanish), Solomon Birnbaum dreamt of creating "a new field of linguistics, a Jewish sociology of language based on comparison of all Jewish languages " (1937: 195). In 1973, Max Weinreich suggested a "systematic research program" (2008[1973]: 54) on language use in various Jewish communities and presented such research in his magnum opus about Yiddish. And in 1981 proposed Jewish intralinguistics as a field of study and, along with Leonard Prager, offered some of this analysis in the short-lived journal Jewish Language Review (1981Review ( -1987) ) and other publications. In this chapter, we present a research agenda for the comparative linguistic study of Jewish communities, building on Birnbaum's, Weinreich's, Gold's, and others' suggestions, on the relatively small amount of comparative research that has been done, and on the language descriptions in this book. We survey past scholarship, discuss preliminaries for comparative study, propose some research questions, and offer reasons why this type of analysis is important.

Author

Sarah Bunin Benor; Benjamin Hary

Publisher

Walter De Gruyter Inc

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501504631

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities