The Jewish Community or kile or kehilá. The Development of Jewish Ethnolect of Czech and the Process of its Vanishing in 20th and 21st Centuries Cover Image

Gmina żydowska albo kile lub kehilá. Rozwój żydowskiego etnolektu czeszczyzny oraz proces jego zapominania w XX i XXI wieku
The Jewish Community or kile or kehilá. The Development of Jewish Ethnolect of Czech and the Process of its Vanishing in 20th and 21st Centuries

Author(s): Štěpán Balík
Subject(s): History, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Jewish studies, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Jewish ethnolect of Czech; Czech Ashkenazic pronunciation; Modern Hebrew pronunciation; language development; process of vanishing; 20th and 21st centuries

Summary/Abstract: In his article, the author first characterises the basic differences between Czech Ashkenazic and Modern Hebrew pronunciation in the context of Jewish Czech, its development and the process of its vanishing in the 20th and 21st centuries. Next, in the case study on Jewish ethnolectal lexical features of a particular respondent, Petr Brod (born 1951), on whom a linguistic study was conducted, the author presents a specific Jewish idiolectal portrait.

  • Issue Year: 18/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 317-328
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish