Mind the Gap! The Schism between Perceptions of the Yiddish Language and Yiddish Cultural Realities

Abstract

The Jewish languages and their typology: Issues and models The paper aims at drawing an explicit picture of the Jewish languages when they are considered from the point of view of their typology, and at reflecting on the issues at stake when heading towards such a typology. These objectives call for an inquiry into the major paths that have been taken for the linguistic analysis of these languages, and for a survey of the formal and informal proposals of a comparative and/or typological character that have been formulated when studying the same group of languages.