Collection(s) : Studies and texts in Jewish history and culture
Paru le 01/06/2009 | Broché
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traduit du français par Ralph Tarica | illustrations Gaëlle Collin
Translated and adapted into English by Dr. Ralph Tarica
In January 2005, the original French version of this work, Manuel de judéo-espagnol : Langue et Culture, received the Alberto Benveniste Prize for Research in Judeo-Spanish Studies in Paris.
« This Judeo-Spanish manual is ambitious and original, on both pedagogical and linguistic levels. [...] It is not a manual of basic language usage but rather a work where language, culture and civilization go together. One discovers here a living demonstration of the ever-renewing relationship between a structural system and usage... »
Franck Alvarez-Pereyre in La linguistique : Journal of the International Society for Functional Linguistics, vol. 35
« The choice of photos and the historical introduction to this wonderful language with its Spanish roots make this work particularly attractive. »
Odette Lang, Tribune juive, Paris
« This book combines the best in wealth of vocabulary, important knowledge of grammar, and authentic sources of the oral and written language, reflecting the language and culture of the Jews expelled from Spain... » Pe'amim : Studies in Oriental Jewry, Quarterly publication of Izhak Ben-Zvi Institute and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
« ...maraviyozo livro de estudio del djudeo-espanyol [...] Anoche yo no lo estava podiendo kitar de la mano, para irme a echar [...] grasias a todos ke te ayudaron en esta ovra tanto emportante, echa kon tan grande kompetensia i ermozura. » Matilda Koen-Sarano, professor of Judeo-Spanish, University of the Negev, Beer-Sheba
« ...el livro de Varol, es una perla. » Yitzhak Navon, former president of Israel
