eprintid: 10127054
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creators_name: Kahn, L
creators_name: Yampolskaya, S
title: Contemporary Ashkenazic Hebrew: The Grammatical Profile of an Overlooked Twenty-First-Century Variety
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abstract: Ashkenazic Hebrew is a unique language variety with a centuries-long history of written use among Central and Eastern European Jews. It has distinct phonological and grammatical features attested in texts composed by Ashkenazic Jews (e.g. adherents of the Hasidic and Maskilic movements) in Europe prior to the twentieth century. While Ashkenazic Hebrew is commonly believed to have been replaced by Israeli Hebrew in the twentieth century, this traditional written variety of the language actually continues to thrive in contemporary Diaspora Haredi (strictly Orthodox) communities, chiefly the Hasidic centres of New York, London, Montreal and Antwerp. This fascinating and understudied form of Hebrew is used widely and productively in the composition of a rich variety of original documents for a Hasidic audience (about e.g. Covid transmission, United States educational stipulations, Zoom schooling, lockdown rules, etc.). In this article we demonstrate that contemporary Ashkenazic Hebrew has many shared orthographic, phonological, grammatical and lexical features with its Eastern European antecedent. These include: orthography of loanwords based on Yiddish conventions (e.g. חולי הקאראנא xóylay ha-koróna ‘those ill with coronavirus’); morphology of plural loan nouns (בקאלידזשעס be-kóleǧes‘in colleges’, הפראגראמע״ן haprográmen ‘the programmes’); retention of the definite article with inseparable prepositions (בהשכונה be-ha-šxíne‘in the neighbourhood’);
date: 2022-04
date_type: published
publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgab029
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1861722
doi: 10.1093/jss/fgab029
lyricists_name: Kahn, Lily
lyricists_name: Yampolskaya, Sonya
lyricists_id: LOKAH13
lyricists_id: SYAMP96
actors_name: Barczynska, Patrycja
actors_id: PBARC91
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Journal of Semitic Studies
volume: 67
number: 1
pagerange: 199-267
issn: 0022-4480
citation:        Kahn, L;    Yampolskaya, S;      (2022)    Contemporary Ashkenazic Hebrew: The Grammatical Profile of an Overlooked Twenty-First-Century Variety.                   Journal of Semitic Studies , 67  (1)   pp. 199-267.    10.1093/jss/fgab029 <https://doi.org/10.1093/jss%2Ffgab029>.       Green open access   
 
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