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Autochthonous Texts in the Arabic Dialect of the Jews in Tiberias

Autochthonous Texts in the Arabic Dialect of the Jews in Tiberias

by Aharon Geva-Kleinberger
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/07/2009

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The soul of this book is not just linguistic. The author creates an innovative approach, combining language with anthropology and history, and this can serve a medley of researchers in interdisciplinary fields. The texts introduce the long and rich inheritance of the Arabic-speaking Jews of Tiberias. They have lived there for centuries with only brief interruptions, and have spoken Arabic as their mother tongue. The author continues here his research on other communities in Galilee where Arabic has been spoken by Jews, such as Haifa, Safed and Pqi'in. The book pays homage to these people, their heritage and language, before all sink, alas, into the limbo of forgotten things. These are the last vanishing voices, which speak out, tell and still breathe. Hopefully they will still serve as evidence in the future of a once glorious but dying culture, whose existence, paradoxically, may even come to be doubted in future times.
ISBN:
9783447059343
9783447059343
Category:
Judaism
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-07-2009
Language:
Arabic, English
Publisher:
Harrassowitz
Country of origin:
Germany
Pages:
224
Dimensions (mm):
239x170x0mm
Weight:
0.59kg

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