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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 from Yiddish, and both classical and modern Hebrew.
Video lecture: Jewish English is a Jewish language. Today, in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, South Africa, Australia, and Israel, millions of Jews speak Jewish varieties of English, with influences from Textual Hebrew, Modern Hebrew, Yiddish, and other languages.
1031 entries that do not appear in any Jewish English dictionary. BROWSE: See full lexicon in alphabetical order. See a random list of words. ADVANCED SEARCH: (See the NOTES for information about these languages, dictionaries, and types of people.) Languages of origin.
Jewish English Lexicon (JEL) is an online dictionary of the language spoken by Jewish English speakers, encompassesing a varied assortment of terms that originate from ancient and modern Hebrew, Aramaic, Yiddish, Ladino, Arabic, among other languages.
A collective term for several varieties of English spoken and written by Jews, marked by a range of lexical, grammatical, and other linguistic and paralinguistic elements. At present, the most common variety is an English influenced by YIDDISH and HEBREW, used chiefly
The history of the Jews in England goes back to the reign of William the Conqueror. Although it is likely that there had been some Jewish presence in the Roman period, there is no definitive evidence, and no reason to suppose that there was any community during Anglo-Saxon times.
JEWISH ENGLISH. DAVID L. GOLD. Universiry of Haifa, Haifa. 1. Introduction. It is basic to human social organization that whenever people are closely associated they develop special linguistic forms (planned innovations), special forms develop (unplanned innovations), or both.
