This book examines how German-speaking Jews living in Berlin make sense and make use of their multilingual repertoire. With a focus on lexical variation, the book demonstrates how speakers integrate Yiddish and Hebrew elements into German for indexing belonging and for positioning themselves within the Jewish community. Linguistic choices are shaped by language ideologies (e.g., authenticity, prescriptivism, nostalgia). Speakers translanguage when using their multilingual repertoire, but do so in a diglossic way, using elements from different languages for specific domains.
The sweetest love story pf them all: the Old Testament tale of the love of the between the modest maid Esther and the great emperor Ahasuerus GREAT LOVE STORIES OF THE WORLD
General Bishop Alton A. Smith; Esther and Robert H. Perara Sr.; and the pastor's wife, Lady D. (Doris BentonaEUR"Smith), our fortieth anniversary renewal wedding directress. This is the Lord's doing. It is marvelous in our eyes (Psalms 118:23, 24). For this is the day the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it in all our days! O Haman's spirit lost again! Prayer changes things! Our pastor reminds us, "A blessing delayed is not a blessing denied!
This book examines how German-speaking Jews living in Berlin make sense and make use of their multilingual repertoire. With a focus on lexical variation, the book demonstrates how speakers integrate Yiddish and Hebrew elements into German for indexing belonging and for positioning themselves within the Jewish community. Linguistic choices are shaped by language ideologies (e.g., authenticity, prescriptivism, nostalgia). Speakers translanguage when using their multilingual repertoire, but do so in a diglossic way, using elements from different languages for specific domains.
This collection of stories includes some of Esther Pearlmans best ever. Stories from her creative world feature adventures as artist, book author and movie extra. In the section Esther & Marty, we encounter their clever banter, Esthers touching birthday toasts to Marty, and even a trip to a nudist colony! We follow Esther as she navigates her daily life from cleverly handling a possible theft at the health food market to getting chatty with a caller from an 800 number. We also get glimpses of her earlier years. Esthers escapades are infused with her love of life and natural charm. Be charmed and enjoy!
This is another series of memories of unusual occurrences that happened to the author?from trips to Africa; trips to Wallgreens, unusual dates she remembers, not with pits, art galleries, being accepted in art shows, and to her son's poem to remind her of how talented he is. Her new work is funny and unique. There is so much to love!
This book is for anyone interested in religious studies and women's studies, as well as for biblical scholars. It offers a feminist oppositional reading of the biblical text. The main argument is that the Bible constructs a fictional universe in which women are shown to be intent on promoting male interests, and, for the most part, appear as secondary characters whose voice and point of view are often suppressed. In their limited roles as mothers, wives, daughters and sisters, women are constructed as male-dependent pawns intent on securing the status of their male counterparts. The Biblical narrative highlights the contribution of women as reproductive agents and protectors of sons. In this challenging collection of essays, Fuchs focuses on type-scenes as a way of demonstrating the mechanisms by which the texts validates male power and superiority. She also deconstructs the Biblical sexual politics by asking whose interest is being served by the 'good' women of the Bible.Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement series, Volume 310.
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