Jewish languages in the Mediterranean

CERMOM is pleased to invite you to the international colloquium: "Jewish languages in the Mediterranean region", organized by Inalco, CERMOM-Inalco, the Institut des Langues Rares, Oxford University, the École Pratique des Hautes Études, and the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme (MahJ).

Speakers

Scientific event summary

To come.

Program

- 9:30-9:40

  • Opening

Paul Salmona, director of the mahJ

- 9h40-9h45

  • Introduction

Elisa Carandina, Inalco-CERMOM

- 9h45-11h15

  • First session: Jewish languages in North Africa.

Chaired by Zeljko Jovanovic, Inalco-CERMOM

- 9h45-10h15

  • The midrash of King Solomon and the three brothers in Judaeo-Moroccan Arabic

Jonas Sibony, Sorbonne Université

- 10h15-10h45

  • Arabic, a Jewish language of scholarship in the early 20th century? A study based on the work of an Egyptian Karaite.

Wissem Gueddich, EPHE-SAPRAT

- 10h45-11h15

  • Esther Aflalo's early playlets in ḥaketía or the construction of a theatrical model.

Line Amselem, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France

- 11h15-11h45: Pause
- 11h45-12h45

  • Session two: The languages of Sephardic Jews in the Ottoman Empire.

Chaired by Carlos Yebra López, University College, London

- 11h45-12h15

  • Lexical creation and innovations in Eastern Judeo-Spanish (djudyo/ladino)

Marie-Christine Bornes Varol, Inalco-CERMOM

- 12h15-12h45

  • The forms of hope: a text on Beta Israel in Hebrew (15th century) and its translation into Ladino (18th century)

Giacomo Corazzol, University of Padua, and Zeljko Jovanovic, Inalco-CERMOM

- 12h45-14h15 : Break

- 14h15-15h20

  • Third session: Projects in progress and book presentations

Chaired by Marie-Christine Bornes Varol, Inalco-CERMOM

- 14h15-14h35

  • The Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages and ILARA (Institut des langues rares)

Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, IRHT-CNRS, EPHE, University of Oxford

- 14h35-14h55

  • Presentation of Maria Luisa Mayer Modena's Vena hebraica nel giudeo-italiano. Dizionario dell'elemento ebraico negli idiomi degli Ebrei d'Italia (2022)

Claudia Rosenzweig, Bar-Ilan University

- 14h55-15h15

  • The digital revitalization of Ladino in the 21st century

Carlos Yebra López, University College, London

- 15h15-16h35

  • Fourth session: Jewish languages of the Christian Mediterranean (1)

Chaired by Elisa Carandina, Inalco-CERMOM

- 15h15-16h05

  • Judeo-languages in Majorca at the turn of the fifteenth century according to the documentation of the Datini collection

Ingrid Houssaye-Michienzi, CNRS, and Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, IRHT-CNRS, EPHE, University of Oxford

- 16h05-16h35

  • Contemporary survivals of the dialect of Provençal Jews: le dabérage

Peter Nahon, CNRS

- 16h35-16h50: Pause
- 16h50-18h15

  • Fifth session: Jewish Languages of the Christian Mediterranean (2)

Chaired by Giacomo Corazzol, University of Padua

- 16h50-17h25

  • Late Medieval-Early Modern Judaeo-Greek Biblical Translations and the Language Varieties of Contemporary Greek [paper in English, with abstract in French]

Julia G. Krivoruchko, University of Cambridge

- 17h25-18h15

  • Translations from Hebrew into literary Italian and into Yiddish in the early modern period

Alessandro Guetta, Inalco-CERMOM, and Claudia Rosenzweig, Bar-Ilan University

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