New Journal: Journal of Jewish Languages (Brill)

[Sarah Benor]

Sarah Bunin Benor and Ofra Tirosh-Becker are pleased to announce the launch
of a new journal, published by Brill.



The peer-reviewed Journal of Jewish
Languages<http://www.brill.com/publications/journals/journal-jewish-languages>
(JJL)
constitutes a venue for academic research in the multifaceted field of
Jewish Languages. Jewish languages are the languages spoken and written by
Jews in their communities around the world. Among these are Yiddish,
Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Arabic, Jewish Aramaic, Judeo-Italian, Judeo-French,
Judeo-Provençal, Judeo-Persian, Jewish English, Jewish Malayalam and more.
Although these belong to a variety of genealogical language families,
Jewish languages have common linguistic features, thus constituting a
distinct field of research.



The Journal of Jewish Languages encourages comparative studies across the
different Jewish languages as well as in-depth linguistic and philological
research of the individual languages and their varieties. The JJL promotes
studies that focus on diverse aspects, such as the interactions of these
languages with other languages (especially Hebrew, Aramaic, and the
surrounding non-Jewish languages), sociolinguistics, translation
traditions, and more. Articles in this journal focus on medieval, modern,
and contemporary Jewish languages and are based on manuscripts, printed
material, orally transmitted translations, field work recordings, online
speech samples, and other sources. Research on Hebrew will be considered
for publication in JJL only if it relates to other languages Jews have
spoken or written. The JJL encourages diverse methodological and
theoretical approaches from dialectology, sociolinguistics, discourse
analysis, historical linguistics, formal linguistics, philology, and other
fields.



Editors-in-Chief:

Ofra Tirosh-Becker, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (
otirosh at mscc.huji.ac.il)

Sarah Bunin Benor, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion (
sbenor at huc.edu)



Book Review Editor:

Tsvi Sadan (Tsuguya Sasaki), Bar-Ilan University, Israel (
tsvi.sadan at biu.ac.il)



Editorial Board:

Marion Aptroot, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

Cyril Aslanov,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Benjamin Hary, Emory University, USA

Hezi Mutzafi, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Aaron Rubin, Penn State University, USA

Ora R. Schwarzwald, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Norman Stillman, University of Oklahoma, USA



Advisory Board:

Moshe Bar-Asher, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Joshua Blau, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

David Bunis, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Joseph Chetrit, University of Haifa, Israel

Joshua Fishman, Yeshiva University, New York, NY, USA

Otto Jastrow, Tallinn University, Estonia

Geoffrey Khan, University of Cambridge, UK

Maria Modena, Università degli Studi of Milan, Italy

Bernard Spolsky, Bar-Ilan University, Israel