Jews And The Language Of Eastern Slavs
Journal: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Year: 2014

<strong>Abstract: </strong>The dating and localization of Jewish presence, origin and cultural characteristics of Jewish population in the Medieval Eastern Europe became a subject of tense discussion and extreme evaluations, often connected to extra-academic ideological agendas. The question of the spoken language of the Jews inhabiting Slavic lands during the Middle Ages is one of these unresolved questions. The most basic problem hindering the development of this field was a failure to differe