Yiddish and Judeo-Spanish: A European Heritage

JUDEO-SPANISH

• Origins
• Migrations of the Spanish Jews
• Judeo-Spanish, a language of fusion and a living museum for 15th century Spanish
• Problems of Judeo-Spanish
• Spelling
• Old Judeo-Spanish literature (through 1850)
• Modern literature (1850 to the present)
• The fate of the Judeo-Spanish - Dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire
• Lost unity
• The Holocaust, 1939-1940 - A language assassinated
• The Sephardim today
• A renaissance for Judeo-Spanish through its literature
• Judeo-Spanish in universities
• Community education and life
• The future of Judeo-Spanish
• Associations, magazines and periodicals
• Concise Bibliography

• Origins
• Yiddish as a language of fusion
• Yiddish migrations and the crystallisation of dialects
• Internal multilingualism in the Ashkenazi world
• Old Yiddish literature
• Yiddish and its audience
• Modern Yiddish literature
• Yiddish as a substitute for territory
• YIVO and the network of socio-cultural associations
• A language assassinated
• Decline
• Yiddish today
• An increase in vitality?
• Concise Bibliography
• Useful addresses