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Author:   Bernard Spolsky
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.222kg
ISBN:  

9789004338388

ISBN 10:   9004338381
Pages:   122
Publication Date:   05 January 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Section 1 Introduction - Diaspora and diasporas - Defining diaspora - The classical Jewish Diaspora - Diaspora attitudes - Living in Diaspora Section 2 - Non-Jewish diasporas - some dimensions of diaspora languages - Case 1 - The Chinese diaspora - a large diverse collection of communities - Case 2 - South Asian diasporas - Case 3 - A return from exile: the Navajo case - Case 4 - A homeless diaspora? Rom or Romani - Case 5 - The Armenian diasporas - an analogous case - Case 6 - Exiles from Arab lands: Syrian and Palestinian diasporas - Case 7 - Russian diaspora communities - old and new - Case 8 - Pasifika in Aotearoa - Dimensions of diaspora languages Section 3- Babylon - the first Jewish Diaspora - The Egyptian captivity - Captivity in Babylonia - The shift to Aramaic - Attitudes to Diaspora - The persistence of Hebrew Section 4 - The Diaspora in Greek cities - The growth of the Diaspora - Jews in Greek colonies Section 5 - Jews in the Arab world - Pre-Islamic Diaspora - Jews in Islam - The Jewish variety of Arabic - The Reconquista and Jewish Spanish Section 6 The European Diaspora - Jews in Europe - Language shift - What is a Jewish variety? - Yiddish origins Section 7 - The Shtetl: the mythic classic Jewish Diaspora - Jews in Slavic lands Section 8 - The Ottoman Sephardic Diaspora - Expelled Iberian Jews move East - The Ottoman welcome and its limits - Jews in the Ottoman Balkans - The development of the millet system Section 9 - The emancipated, secularizing, assimilating Diaspora of modern times - The effect of emancipation - France - Germany - Netherlands - Belgium - United Kingdom - United States - Poland - The Soviet Union - The Arab world - Algeria - Morocco - Tunisia - Egypt - Iraq - Syria - Lebanon - Iran - Turkey Section 10 - Bring us back - The problem of returning from diaspora - The challenge of Global English - Rediasporization in Israel Section 11- Diaspora and diasporas - A tertiary diaspora - a note on a new Israeli diaspora - The effects of diaspora on language repertoires - The future of diasporas References

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Bernard Spolsky (Ph.D. 1966, Hon.D.Litt 2008) is Professor Emeritus at Bar-Ilan University. He has published ten monographs (three translated into Japanese, Chinese or Latvian), 150 book chapters and 94 papers in peer reviewed journals, and edited three international academic journals and 26 books.

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