Jewish English is a cover term for varieties of the English language spoken by Jews. They may include significant amounts of vocabulary and syntax taken...
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Jewish English may refer to: Jewish English varieties, varieties of the English language British Jews, the British people of Jewish descent This disambiguation...
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new varieties of these languages, collectively termed "Jewish languages". Various reasons led to the development of distinctive Jewish varieties of the...
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Angeles division of Hebrew Union College. Benor, a scholar of the varieties of Jewish English spoken in the United States, created the lexicon in 2012 with...
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Varieties of the French language are spoken in France and around the world. The Francophones of France generally use Metropolitan French[citation needed]...
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Hebrew Bible (redirect from Jewish Scriptures)
Consultation of Jewish Authorities was published in 1917 by the Jewish Publication Society. It was replaced by their Tanakh in 1985 Tanakh, Jewish Publication...
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the first known Jewish family names date to the Middle Ages, in the 10th and 11th centuries. Jews have some of the largest varieties of surnames among...
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Neo-Aramaic languages (section Varieties)
remains as a witness to the western varieties, which used to be much more widespread in Palestine (as evidenced in varieties from the first millennium CE such...
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Speck (section Regional varieties)
a cognate of bacon.[citation needed] There are a number of regional varieties of speck, including: Bacon, e.g. Frühstücksspeck ("breakfast speck") in...
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Stereotypes of Jews (redirect from Jewish mother stereotype)
earliest record of anti-Jewish caricature is a detailed doodle depicted in the upper margin of the Exchequer Receipt Roll (English royal tax record) in 1233...
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Jewish prayer (Hebrew: תְּפִילָּה, tefilla [tfiˈla]; plural תְּפִילּוֹת tefillot [tfiˈlot]; Yiddish: תּפֿלה, romanized: tfile [ˈtfɪlə], plural תּפֿלות...
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There are several Jewish and Hebrew greetings, farewells, and phrases that are used in Judaism, and in Jewish and Hebrew-speaking communities around the...
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Ketuvim. Most Jewish translations appear in bilingual editions (Hebrew–English). Jewish translations often reflect traditional Jewish exegesis of the...
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Judaism (redirect from Jewish religion)
Retrieved 22 August 2010. Shaye J.D. Cohen 1999 The Beginnings of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties University of California Press. 105–106 "He...
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The Holocaust (redirect from Jewish Holocaust)
million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out primarily through mass shootings...
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Betanure Jewish Neo-Aramaic, the local language variety of Betanure in Iraqi Kurdistan, is among the rarest and most seriously endangered varieties of Aramaic...
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majority of Jewish translations use the Anglicized forms of biblical names. The first English Jewish translation of the Bible into English was by Isaac...
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Jewish holidays, also known as Jewish festivals or Yamim Tovim (Hebrew: ימים טובים, romanized: yāmim ṭoḇim, lit. 'Good Days', or singular Hebrew: יום...
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Literary language (redirect from Literary English)
Generally there is a continuum between more dialectical varieties to more standard varieties in German, while colloquial German nonetheless tends to increase...
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Kishka (food) (redirect from Kishke (Jewish food))
Helzel Jewish cuisine Israeli cuisine Frederic Gomes Cassidy, Joan Houston Hall (1985), "kishka" and "kishke" in Dictionary of American Regional English, p...
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Hebrew language (redirect from Jewish grammatical tradition)
origin Hebraism Hebraization of English Hebrew abbreviations Hebrew literature Hebrew numerals Jewish languages List of English words of Hebrew origin Romanization...
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Diasporas and Exiles: Varieties of Jewish Identity, University of California Press 2002 (pp. 47-59 p.47 Steven Bowman, 'Jewish Diaspora in the Greek World:...
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passive voice, except in a few relic varieties; restriction in the use of the dual number and (for most varieties) the loss of the distinctive conjugation...
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Latke (category Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine)
are two main varieties: those made with grated potato and those made with puréed or mashed potato. The textures of these two varieties are different...
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Michael Showalter (redirect from Michael English Showalter)
literature.[citation needed] His father is Episcopalian and his mother is Jewish. He has one older sister, Vinca Showalter LaFleur, a professional speechwriter...
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small-scale Jewish migrations began in many countries of the Middle East in the early 20th century, with the only substantial aliyot (Jewish immigrations...
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Halakha (redirect from Jewish law)
halakhah, and halocho (Ashkenazic: [haˈlɔχɔ]), is the collective body of Jewish religious laws that are derived from the Written and Oral Torah. Halakha...
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California English (or Californian English) collectively refers to varieties of American English native to California. As California became one of the...
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and secular varieties. The production of Jewish literature has flowered with the modern emergence of secular Jewish culture. Modern Jewish literature has...
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