Manual of Judaeo-Romance Linguistics and Philology (Manuals of Romance Linguistics)

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This manual provides a detailed presentation of the various Romance languages as they appear in texts written by Jews, mostly using the Hebrew alphabet. It gives a comprehensive overview of the Jews and the Romance languages in the Middle Ages (part I), as well as after the expulsions (part II). These sections are dedicated to Judaeo-Romance texts and linguistic traditions mainly from Italy, northern and southern France (French and Occitan), and the Iberian Peninsula (Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese). The Judaeo-Spanish varieties of the 20th and 21st centuries are discussed in a separate section (part III), due to the fact that Judaeo-Spanish can be considered an independent language. This section includes detailed descriptions of its phonetics/phonology, morphology, lexicon, and syntax.

The series Manuals of Romance Linguistics (MRL) presents a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of Romance linguistics. It will comprise approximately 60 volumes that can either be consulted individually or used as a series of books providing a detailed overall picture of the current state of research in Romance linguistics. Special focus is placed on the presentation and analysis of the smaller languages, the linguae minores.

This manual provides a detailed presentation of the various Romance languages as they appear in texts written by Jews, mostly using the Hebrew alphabet. It gives a comprehensive overview of the Jews and the Romance languages in the Middle Ages (part I), as well as after the expulsions (part II). These sections are dedicated to Judaeo-Romance texts and linguistic traditions mainly from Italy, northern and southern France (French and Occitan), and the Iberian Peninsula (Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese). The Judaeo-Spanish varieties of the 20th and 21st centuries are discussed in a separate section (part III), due to the fact that Judaeo-Spanish can be considered an independent language. This section includes detailed descriptions of its phonetics/phonology, morphology, lexicon, and syntax.

Guido Mensching and Frank Savelsberg, University of Göttingen, Germany.

"[L]a aportación de este manual al conocimiento de las lenguas (judeo) romances es de máxima relevancia. Además de describir rigurosamente los rasgos lingüísticos que caracterizan a una y a otra, estos se documentan a través de numerosos testimonios textuales y análisis de corpus prácticamente inexplorados." (Valeria Casado Taranco, in: Sefarad 84:2 (2024), 1250. https://doi.org/10.3989/sefarad.024.1250)

"Insgesamt handelt es sich um ein lesenswertes Werk, das einen fundierten Überblick über die mittelalterlichen jüdisch-romanischen Texte sowie das Judenspanische auf dem gegenwärtigen Wissenstand bietet. Obwohl Hebräisch-Kenntnisse oft hilfreich waren, sind die Einzelkapitel auch für ein nicht-spezialisiertes Publikum leicht zugänglich. [...] Als neues Standard- und Nachschlagewerk, das zugleich vielerlei interessante und spannende Details bereithält, wird das Werk gewiss nicht nur zu einer besseren Einordnung der jüdisch-romanischen Varietäten und ihres Status beitragen, sondern ihnen innerhalb der Romanistik (zurecht) auch mehr Sichtbarkeit zu verschaffen." (Jonas Grünke, in: Romanische Forschungen 137 (2025), 302-308)

"En conclusió, Manual of Judaeo-Romance Linguistics and Philology és una novetat més que benvinguda, tant en l'àmbit de la lingüística romànica, com en l'àmbit de la lingüística jueva. Els editors han sabut reunir una selecció representativa d'experts en diversos àmbits de la lingüística i la filologia judeoromàniques, i han produït un manual que reflecteix l'estat actual dels assoliments de la disciplina." (Nikola Vuletic, in: Estudis Romànics 48 (2026), 502-506)

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