LEADER 04787nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910788365503321 005 20211012031031.0 010 $a0-8122-0535-9 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812205350 035 $a(CKB)3170000000047077 035 $a(OCoLC)794700628 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576088 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606142 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11433945 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606142 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10581487 035 $a(PQKB)10148891 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8337 035 $a(DE-B1597)449394 035 $a(OCoLC)1013956417 035 $a(OCoLC)979741045 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812205350 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441648 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10576088 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421038 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441648 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000047077 100 $a20091218d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aVernacular voices$b[electronic resource] $elanguage and identity in medieval French Jewish communities /$fKirsten A. Fudeman 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (269 p.) 225 1 $aJewish culture and contexts 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-4250-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tNotes on Translations and Transcription and Typographical Conventions --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction. The Medieval French Jewish Community in Its Linguistic Context --$tChapter 1. Language and Identity --$tChapter 2. Speech and Silence, Male and Female in Jewish-Christian Relations --$tChapter 3. Texts of Two Colors --$tChapter 4. Hebrew-French Wedding Songs --$tEpilogue --$tAppendix 1. Hebraico-French Glosses and Texts --$tAppendix 2. The Medieval Jewish Wedding Song 'Uri liqra'ti yafah, gentis kallah einoreie --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aA thirteenth-century text purporting to represent a debate between a Jew and a Christian begins with the latter's exposition of the virgin birth, something the Jew finds incomprehensible at the most basic level, for reasons other than theological: "Speak to me in French and explain your words!" he says. "Gloss for me in French what you are saying in Latin!" While the Christian and the Jew of the debate both inhabit the so-called Latin Middle Ages, the Jew is no more comfortable with Latin than the Christian would be with Hebrew. Communication between the two is possible only through the vernacular. In Vernacular Voices, Kirsten Fudeman looks at the roles played by language, and especially medieval French and Hebrew, in shaping identity and culture. How did language affect the way Jews thought, how they interacted with one another and with Christians, and who they perceived themselves to be? What circumstances and forces led to the rise of a medieval Jewish tradition in French? Who were the writers, and why did they sometimes choose to write in the vernacular rather than Hebrew? How and in what terms did Jews define their relationship to the larger French-speaking community? Drawing on a variety of texts written in medieval French and Hebrew, including biblical glosses, medical and culinary recipes, incantations, prayers for the dead, wedding songs, and letters, Fudeman challenges readers to open their ears to the everyday voices of medieval French-speaking Jews and to consider French elements in Hebrew manuscripts not as a marginal phenomenon but as reflections of a vibrant and full vernacular existence. Applying analytical strategies from linguistics, literature, and history, she demonstrates that language played a central role in the formation, expression, and maintenance of medieval Jewish identity and that it brought Christians and Jews together even as it set them apart. 410 0$aJewish culture and contexts. 606 $aHebrew language, Medieval$zFrance 606 $aJews$zFrance$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aJews$zFrance$xIdentity 606 $aJews$zFrance$xLanguages$xHistory 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aJewish Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 610 $aReligion. 615 0$aHebrew language, Medieval 615 0$aJews$xHistory 615 0$aJews$xIdentity. 615 0$aJews$xLanguages$xHistory. 676 $a492.4/7 700 $aFudeman$b Kirsten Anne$0592064 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788365503321 996 $aVernacular voices$91467339 997 $aUNINA