Autochthonous Texts In The Arabic Dialect Of The Jews Of Tiberias

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The soul of this book is not just linguistic. The author creates an innovative approach, combining language with anthropology and history, which will serve a medley of researchers in interdisciplinary fields. The texts introduce the long and rich inheritance of the Arabic-speaking Jews of Tiberias. They have lived there for centuries with only brief interruptions, and have spoken Arabic as their mother tongue. The author continues here his research on other communities in Galilee where Arabic has been spoken by Jews, such as Haifa, Safed and Pqi'in. This book pays homage to these people, their heritage and language, before all sink into the limbo of forgotten things. These are the last vanishing voices, which speak out, tell tales and still breathe. Hopefully they will still serve as evidence in the future of a once glorious but dying culture, whose existence, paradoxically, may come to be doubted in future times.

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