Vernacular voices
Subtitle: language and identity in medieval French Jewish communities
By: Kirsten A. Fudeman.
Series: Jewish culture and contexts
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780812242508
Subjects: Hebrew language, Medieval -- France; Jews -- France -- Languages -- History; Jews -- France -- Identity; Jews -- France -- History -- To 1500
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the medieval French Jewish community in its linguistic context; title: Language and identity; title: Speech and silence, male and female in Jewish-Christian relations: Blois, 1171; title: Texts of two colors; title: Hebrew-French wedding songs: expressions of identity; title: Appendix 1. Hebraico-French glosses and texts; title: Appendix 2. the medieval Jewish wedding song 'Uri liqra'ti yafah, gentis kallah einoreie; title: Bibliography; title: Index.