UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
KENNETH P. DIETRICH SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCES
JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM
“BRUNCH AND LEARN”
DO AMERICAN JEWS SPEAK A JEWISH LANGUAGE?
Do
American Jews have a distinctive way of speaking? If so, is it a Jewish language?
And
just what is a Jewish language?
presented
by:
SARAH BUNIN BENOR
Associate
Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies at Hebrew Union College-Los Angeles
Adjunct
Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern California
Author
of Becoming Frum: How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox
Judaism
(Rutgers
University Press, 2012)
Founder
and Editor of the Jewish Language Research Website, the Jewish English Lexicon,
and
the Journal of Jewish Languages.
Sunday, October 20, 2013, 11 am-12 noon
1500 Posvar Hall, on Schenley Plaza
(Free Parking on Sunday mornings around the Plaza)
Join us for coffee, tea, and light breakfast before the
talk at 10:45 am.
For
more information and to stay in touch:
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