Aaron D. Rubin is Malvin E. and Lea P. Bank Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Jewish Studies, and Linguistics at Penn State University.Lily Kahn is Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Languages at University College London.

'Finally! A book for the general public about Jewish languages that’s as informative as it is enjoyable... This book is a must-read for anyone interested in languages, Jewish history, or both.'- Sarah Bunin Benor, Director of the Jewish Language Project and co-editor of the Journal of Jewish Languages'At last a book on Jewish languages worldwide for curious readers beyond the academy! This book tells us all about not only Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino and Jewish Persian, but Jewish Provençal and a dictionary in Yiddish of pidgin Zulu for Jews working in early 20th-century South Africa! A buffet in book form.'- John H McWhorter, Professor of Linguistics, Columbia University'From Amharic to Zulu, Aaron Rubin and Lily Kahn's delightful new book looks at the linguistic heritage of Jews across the world... Such examples of English written in Hebrew are notably few, particularly considering the language is the most common now spoken among diaspora Jews. For as Aaron D Rubin and Lily Kahn show in their new book, Jewish Languages From A to Z, Jewish communities in the past often transcribed the language of their countries of residence into Hebrew characters.'- Simon Rocker, How Maimonides is linked to the first mention of pizza, The Jewish Chronicle, www.thejc.com, October 26, 2020

• Contents AcknowledgementsIntroduction Amharic Arabic, Medieval Arabic, Modern Aramaic, Ancient and Medieval Aramaic, Modern Armenian Catalan Chinese English Esperanto French Georgian German Greek Hebrew, Inscriptional Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Rabbinic and Medieval Hebrew, Enlightenment Hebrew, Modern Hungarian Israeli Sign Language Italian Karaim (and Krymchak) Ladino (and Spanish) Latin Malay Malayalam Maltese Papiamentu (and Other Creoles) Persian Polish (and Czech) Portuguese Provençal Russian Tajik (Bukhari) Tat (Juhuri) Turkish (and Uzbek) Urdu (and Marathi) Yiddish, Old and Early Modern Yiddish, Modern Standard Yiddish, Modern Hasidic Zulu (Fanagalo)Bibliography

Aaron D. Rubin is Malvin E. and Lea P. Bank Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Jewish Studies, and Linguistics at Penn State University.Lily Kahn is Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Languages at University College London.

'Finally! A book for the general public about Jewish languages that’s as informative as it is enjoyable... This book is a must-read for anyone interested in languages, Jewish history, or both.'- Sarah Bunin Benor, Director of the Jewish Language Project and co-editor of the Journal of Jewish Languages'At last a book on Jewish languages worldwide for curious readers beyond the academy! This book tells us all about not only Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino and Jewish Persian, but Jewish Provençal and a dictionary in Yiddish of pidgin Zulu for Jews working in early 20th-century South Africa! A buffet in book form.'- John H McWhorter, Professor of Linguistics, Columbia University'From Amharic to Zulu, Aaron Rubin and Lily Kahn's delightful new book looks at the linguistic heritage of Jews across the world... Such examples of English written in Hebrew are notably few, particularly considering the language is the most common now spoken among diaspora Jews. For as Aaron D Rubin and Lily Kahn show in their new book, Jewish Languages From A to Z, Jewish communities in the past often transcribed the language of their countries of residence into Hebrew characters.'- Simon Rocker, How Maimonides is linked to the first mention of pizza, The Jewish Chronicle, www.thejc.com, October 26, 2020

• Contents AcknowledgementsIntroduction Amharic Arabic, Medieval Arabic, Modern Aramaic, Ancient and Medieval Aramaic, Modern Armenian Catalan Chinese English Esperanto French Georgian German Greek Hebrew, Inscriptional Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Rabbinic and Medieval Hebrew, Enlightenment Hebrew, Modern Hungarian Israeli Sign Language Italian Karaim (and Krymchak) Ladino (and Spanish) Latin Malay Malayalam Maltese Papiamentu (and Other Creoles) Persian Polish (and Czech) Portuguese Provençal Russian Tajik (Bukhari) Tat (Juhuri) Turkish (and Uzbek) Urdu (and Marathi) Yiddish, Old and Early Modern Yiddish, Modern Standard Yiddish, Modern Hasidic Zulu (Fanagalo)Bibliography

Aaron D. Rubin is Malvin E. and Lea P. Bank Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Jewish Studies, and Linguistics at Penn State University.Lily Kahn is Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Languages at University College London.

'Finally! A book for the general public about Jewish languages that’s as informative as it is enjoyable... This book is a must-read for anyone interested in languages, Jewish history, or both.'- Sarah Bunin Benor, Director of the Jewish Language Project and co-editor of the Journal of Jewish Languages'At last a book on Jewish languages worldwide for curious readers beyond the academy! This book tells us all about not only Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino and Jewish Persian, but Jewish Provençal and a dictionary in Yiddish of pidgin Zulu for Jews working in early 20th-century South Africa! A buffet in book form.'- John H McWhorter, Professor of Linguistics, Columbia University'From Amharic to Zulu, Aaron Rubin and Lily Kahn's delightful new book looks at the linguistic heritage of Jews across the world... Such examples of English written in Hebrew are notably few, particularly considering the language is the most common now spoken among diaspora Jews. For as Aaron D Rubin and Lily Kahn show in their new book, Jewish Languages From A to Z, Jewish communities in the past often transcribed the language of their countries of residence into Hebrew characters.'- Simon Rocker, How Maimonides is linked to the first mention of pizza, The Jewish Chronicle, www.thejc.com, October 26, 2020

• Contents AcknowledgementsIntroduction Amharic Arabic, Medieval Arabic, Modern Aramaic, Ancient and Medieval Aramaic, Modern Armenian Catalan Chinese English Esperanto French Georgian German Greek Hebrew, Inscriptional Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Rabbinic and Medieval Hebrew, Enlightenment Hebrew, Modern Hungarian Israeli Sign Language Italian Karaim (and Krymchak) Ladino (and Spanish) Latin Malay Malayalam Maltese Papiamentu (and Other Creoles) Persian Polish (and Czech) Portuguese Provençal Russian Tajik (Bukhari) Tat (Juhuri) Turkish (and Uzbek) Urdu (and Marathi) Yiddish, Old and Early Modern Yiddish, Modern Standard Yiddish, Modern Hasidic Zulu (Fanagalo)Bibliography