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Author Fudeman, Kirsten Anne

Title Vernacular voices : language and identity in medieval French Jewish communities / Kirsten A. Fudeman
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 254 pages) : illustrations
Series Jewish culture and contexts.
Contents Introduction: the medieval French Jewish community in its linguistic context -- Language and identity -- Speech and silence, male and female in Jewish-Christian relations: Blois, 1171 -- Texts of two colors -- Hebrew-French wedding songs: expressions of identity -- Appendix 1. Hebraico-French glosses and texts -- Appendix 2. The medieval Jewish wedding song 'Uri liqra'ti yafah, gentis kallah einoreie -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Applying analytical strategies from linguistics, literature, and history, Kirsten Fudeman demonstrates that language played a central role in the formation, expression, and maintenance of medieval Jewish identity and that it brought Christians and Jews together even as it set them apart
Analysis "Multi-User"
Notes OldControl:muse9780812205350
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Jews -- France -- History -- To 1500
Jews -- France -- Identity
Jews -- France -- Languages -- History
Hebrew language, Medieval -- France
RELIGION -- Judaism -- History.
Hebrew language, Medieval
Jews
Jews -- Identity
Jews -- Languages
France
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009050751
ISBN 9780812205350
0812205359