Posts by Neil van der Linden
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Early Jewish-Christian Polemic in Arabic: Judeo-Arabic Versions of Toledot Yeshu.https://www.academia.edu/1760178/Early_Jewish_Christian_Polemic_in_Arabic_Judeo_Arabic_Versions_of_Toledot_Yeshu?email_work_card=view-paper
A Hebrew letter sent from Cochin to Alexandria sometime between 1520 and 1560 sought legal advice on intra-communal conflicts between a minority group of impoverished but "pure" Jews, who "out of jealousy and hatred" outcaste the majority of Cochin Jews on grounds of non-Jewish slave origins. Similar allegations are recorded much later in 1687 by a Dutch Jewish trader, Mosseh Pereyra de Paiva, in ...
36 biographical entries from the Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, ed. N. Stillman et al., 4 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 2010)
The Bijapur Sultan Yusuf Adil Shah was nicknamed "The Sabaio" by the Portuguese. The ancient Castillian word "Sabaio-rios" (Sabbath-keepers) could be the origin of this negative title, used as a slang. Since Adil Shah permitted synagogues to be built in Old Goa (Ela) and his selection of a Jew as his admiral. Yusuf Adil Shah was looked up on by the Portuguese invaders of the Indian Ocean, as a lov...
Interrupting the System: Spinoza and Maroon Thought'In “Interruption of the System,” Chapter 5 of Savage Anomaly, Antonio Negri interrogates imagination’s centrality to liberatory and repressive political projects. He begins the chapter with a curious epigraph taken from Spinoza’s letter to Peter Balling. Spinoza writes of an “unpleasant dream,” saying the “images … remained before my eyes just as...
The article deals with the evolution of Middle Judeo-Arabic in North Africa. The study examines the linguistic processes and the hybridized uses of Judeo-Arabic in a theoretical framework oriented toward the main sociopragmatic features of Jewish languages. These include diglossic functioning, endolectal appropriation of a non-Jewish language, hybridization of grammatical and lexical structures, a...
The last speakers of Jewish Malayalam.https://www.academia.edu/7542415/Voices_Yet_to_be_Heard_On_Listening_to_the_Last_Speakers_of_Jewish_Malayalam
Yosef Tobi, Literature, Judeo-Arabic. In: Norman Stillman (ed.), Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, Leiden-Boston 2011, vol. III, pp. 271–278The first literary pieces in Arabic by Jews, most probably oral and comprising both poetry and translations from the Bible, were com-posed in pre-Islamic Arabia. Judeo-Arabic poetry, mainly the works of al-Samaw'al ibn 'Adiyā' of Tayma (d. 560), the gr...
"A Hebrew letter sent from Cochin to Alexandria sometime between 1520 and 1560 sought legal advice on intra-communal conflicts between a minority group of impoverished but "pure" Jews, who "out of jealousy and hatred" outcaste the majority of Cochin Jews on grounds of non-Jewish slave origins. Similar allegations are recorded much later in 1687 by a Dutch Jewish trader, Mosseh Pereyra de Paiva, in...
This historian is preserving North African Jewish music from a bygone era.https://www.jta.org/2021/03/12/culture/this-historian-is-preserving-north-african-jewish-music-from-a-bygone-era?fbclid=IwAR1_mF_SYOwppkFUQbIDeoUYoWjHYFvKn4KHo-giAkHdnFB2gal_rQsfFf4
B. Hary. “Judeo-Arabic in the Arabic-Speaking World.” In B. Hary and S. Benor [eds.]. Languages in Jewish Communities, Past and Present. Boston and Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton, 2018.
Josef Nassy (1904-1976) was a black, Yiddish-speaking artist from a Sephardic Jewish family in Suriname, descended from David Cohen Nassy. Living in Belgium with a US passport when WWII began, he was confined in German internment camps where he created more than 200 paintings and drawings often depicting life in the camps. (Last I checked, there was a collection at The Museum Of Jewish Diaspora In...
‘It almost seems unreal today, but it was a weekly ritual in Israel, from 1968 up until the mid-1990s, long before cables, Netflix or even just multichannel television. Each Friday afternoon, for almost three decades, everyone gathered around the tribal fire of the “Arab film”, an inclusive folk Israeli term referring to films that mostly came from Egypt to the young, mono-channel State of Israel....