Ashkenazim and Sephardim: Language Miscellanea

Andrzej Kątny is Professor of German linguistics at the University of Gdańsk (Poland). His research interests include German linguistics, Polish-German contrastive studies, and contact linguistics.Izabela Olszewska is Assistant Professor at the Institute of German Philology at the University in Gdańsk (Poland). Her academic interests involve the language and culture of Ashkenazi Jews, Holocaust, media linguistics, and culture of remembrance.Aleksandra Twardowska is Assistant Professor at the Department of Balkan Studies at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland). Her academic interests involve the language, culture and history of Balkan Jews, Jewish and Slavic anthroponomy, and Balkan languages.

• Yiddish and Judeo-Spanish speakers and the acquisition of English - A positive image of Yiddish and Judeo-Spanish in the Jewish Press - Sarajevo Sephardim and their linguistic and Jewish identification - Eating and drinking among Bulgarian Sephardim - Language as Oikos: the case of Margalit Matitiahu - Sefer ha-Berit in Ladino - Yitskhok Katsenelson’s Dos lid fun oysgehargetn yidishn folk - The Yiddish subjective resultative construction