Michal Held The Center for Study of Jewish Languages and Literatures, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem DeThe Function of Language in the DH-L: A Written Spoken Language? Although the online communities that this paper focuses on are technically defined as a mailing list (The Ladinokomunita Mailing List) and as a …
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The People Who Almost Forgot: JudeoSpanish Online Communities As a Digital Home-Land – Part 2
Michal Held The Center for Study of Jewish Languages and Literatures, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem The Digital HomeLand According to Robin Cohen,[16] offline Diaspora communities have traumatic characteristics, such as dispersal from the homeland, selfexiles in search of work, trade, or colonial ambitions and an uneasy relationship with the ‘host’ …
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Michal Held The Center for Study of Jewish Languages and Literatures, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem Introduction From the start of the twentieth century, the status of JudeoSpanish [1] has seriously deteriorated because of various social developments, chief among these being the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the Nazi extermination of …
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