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Homophony in Multilingual Jewish Cultures

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Abstract

One of the distinctive features of multilingual Jewish cultures is the interpretation of a sacred Hebrew signifier by its phonic identity or proximity to a signifier in another language. This essay demonstrates the cultural creativity that might inhere in such “mistakes,” providing examples from three different periods—rabbinic, Hebrew-Yiddish European culture, and modern Israeli Hebrew.
Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)43-49
JournalDibur literary journal
Issue number1
StatePublished - 2015

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