The Non-Jewish Origins of the Sephardic JewsThe author uses linguistic, ethnographic, and historical evidence to support his theory that the origins of Sephardic Jews are predominantly Berber and Arab. |
Contents
Approaches to the Study of Jewish Ethnicity and Ethnic Myths | 1 |
Conversion to Judaism in the Asian African and Iberian Lands up to c1200 AD | 21 |
The Migration of Western Asian Jews to the Western Mediterranean | 25 |
The Role of Western Asian Converts in the Formation of the Sephardic Jews | 27 |
Conversion to Judaism in North Africa and Spain | 36 |
The Contribution of Women Converts to the Formation of the Sephardic Jews | 51 |
Syncretistic Religious Expression in Spain with special attention to the Marranos | 56 |
The North African Homeland of the Sephardic Jews and the Origin of the Term Sephardic | 75 |
The Broken Plural in JudeoSpanish Hebrew and JudeoArabic | 166 |
Periphrastic Verbs with Hebrew Components in JudeoSpanish | 167 |
The Agentive Formation in JudeoSpanish and JudeoSpanish Hebrew | 168 |
Determination in Modified Noun Phrases in JudeoSpanish Hebrew | 169 |
The Common Hebrew and JudeoAramaic Corpus of JudeoArabic and JudeoSpanish | 171 |
The Impact of Berber on Iberian JudeoArabic and JudeoSpanish | 173 |
Evidence from Religion and Folk Culture | 180 |
The Processes of Judaization | 191 |
The Alleged Hispanicity of the Sephardic Jews | 86 |
Towards a New Periodization of Sephardic History | 98 |
The BerberoArab Roots of the Sephardic Jews | 105 |
Evidence from Language | 106 |
Jewish Onomastics as a Reflection of the Ethnic Origins of the Sephardic Jews | 126 |
Jewish Migration from North Africa to Spain as Reflected in North African Latin and Greek Elements in JudeoArabic and JudeoSpanish | 135 |
The Arabic Imprint on JudeoSpanish and JudeoSpanish Hebrew | 154 |
Iberian JudeoSpanish Arabisms which are Unique in Inventory Form or Meaning | 156 |
The Arabized Pronunciation of JudeoSpanish and JudeoSpanish Hebrew | 163 |
Arabic Grammatical Processes in JudeoSpanish and JudeoArabicJudeoSpanish Hebrew | 165 |
The Elimination of Berber and Arab Practices | 195 |
The Retention of Obsolete Berber and Arab Practices and their Nomenclature | 196 |
The Espousal of Ashkenazic Provencal Romaniote and New Berber and Arab Practices | 199 |
The Recalibration of Christian Terms and Practices | 212 |
The Recalibration of Muslim Arabic Terms and Names in Iberian JudeoArabic and JudeoSpanish | 217 |
Findings and Challenges | 229 |
Bibliography | 249 |
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14th century AlgJAr Arabic dialects Arabic-speaking Aramaic Ashkenazic Jews attested Balkan Judeo-Spanish Benoliel Berber and Arab Berbero-Arab Bible Biblical Hebrew Bunis Castilian Catalan Christian cited Cohen contemporary conversion to Judaism converts coterritorial customs DCECH denote derived diasporas discussion earlier in chapter early ethnic etymon example German Goitein Grecism Greek Hebraisms Hebrew and Judeo-Aramaic Iberian Arabic Iberian Jewish Iberian Jews Iberian Peninsula Ibero-Romance ibid indigenous Iraqi Islam Jewish communities Jewish languages Jews and Muslims Judaization Judeo Judeo-Arabic Judeo-Greek Judeo-Latin Judeo-Spanish Ladino language shift late latter lexicon linguistic literature Marranos meaning MorJSp Morocco Mozarabic Muslim Muslim Arabic native non-Jewish non-Jews North African North African Jews Old Hebrew origin prayer pronunciation proselytes rabbi relexified religious ritual Romance root SalJSp Semitic Sephardic Jews Sephardim Slavic Spain Spanish Spanish Arabic speakers spoken suggests surface cognates synagogue syncretistic Talmud term texts Toledo toponyms volume Wexler Yemenite Yiddish
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