Contacts and Discontinuities: Changing Aspects in Shimon Adaf’s Work

The writings of Shimon Adaf construct a hybrid, multicultural quasi-dialect that is unusual in Israeli literature in general and in the genre known as “Oriental Jewish literature” in particular. While Israeli Hebrew is hybrid by its very nature, there is a difference between hybridity deriving from...

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1. VerfasserIn: Lemberger, Dorit (Verfasst von)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: 2014
In: Hebrew studies
Jahr: 2014, Band: 55, Heft: 1, Seiten: 330-354
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