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September 11, 2020
The Man Who Worked to Preserve Tunisian Judeo-Arabic Literature
Daniel Hagège.
Wherever Jews’ wanderings took them, they began writing their spoken language in Hebrew characters, and often developed their own Jewish languages—of which Yiddish is the best known. Thus Saadiah Gaon and Moses Maimonides composed their great philosophical works in Judeo-Arabic not so different from the standard language, but the Jews of Tunisia spoke a distinctive dialect containing smatterings of Hebrew, French, and Italian. Chen Malul describes this tongue’s literary history, and its greatest advocate:
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The Man Who Worked to Preserve Tunisian Judeo-Arabic Literature
Daniel Hagège.