Bilingualism and Script-Switching in a Poet’s Notebook from the Genizah
This article investigates the linguistic and graphic form of the intertwining of the Arabic and Hebrew languages and their respective scripts in the pages of a medieval poetic notebook from among the manuscript fragments of the Cairo Genizah. The owner-producer of the notebook employed transcription...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2026
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| In: |
Zutot
Year: 2026, Volume: 23, Issue: 1, Pages: 6-19 |
| Further subjects: | B
Cairo Genizah
B Judaeo-Arabic B Bilingualism B Arabic Poetry B Piyyut B script-switching B Code-switching |
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| Summary: | This article investigates the linguistic and graphic form of the intertwining of the Arabic and Hebrew languages and their respective scripts in the pages of a medieval poetic notebook from among the manuscript fragments of the Cairo Genizah. The owner-producer of the notebook employed transcription, translation, code-switching and script-mixing, exploiting fully the bilingual nature of Jewish intellectual culture in the medieval Islamicate world. In this article we present the fragment and explain the probable strategy behind the language- and script-switching. |
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| ISSN: | 1875-0214 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zutot
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18750214-bja10056 |
