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The Jewish diaspora (Hebrew: גוֹלָה, romanized: gōlā), dispersion (Hebrew: תְּפוּצָה, romanized: təfūṣā) or exile (Galuth, Hebrew: גָּלוּת gālūṯ; Yiddish: גלות, romanized: goles) [a] is the dispersion of Israelites or Jews out of their ancient ancestral homeland (the Land of Israel) and their subsequent ...
David is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin. Its popularity derives from the initial oral tradition ( Oral Torah ) and recorded use related to King David , a central figure in the Hebrew Bible , or Tanakh, and foundational to Judaism , and subsequently significant in the religious traditions of Christianity and Islam .
During the 19th century Judeo-Italian had switched from using Hebrew letters to the latin alphabet. [12] The language began to decline in the early 19th century as Italian Jews were emancipated and began to switch to standard Italian instead of Judeo-Italian. [15] At the same time it began to be written down to preserve the language as it ...
Giorgio Bassani, a Jewish Italian author, has given an insight into the life of the Jewish middle class during the Fascist regime. Michele Sarfatti has written a thorough compendium of the situation of the Italian Jewish community under the fascist regime in his book The Jews in Mussolini's Italy: from equality to persecution.
Italian bilingual speakers can be found scattered across the Southeast of Brazil as well as in the South, [250] In Venezuela, Italian is the most spoken language after Spanish and Portuguese, with around 200,000 speakers. [255] In Uruguay, people that speak Italian as their home language is 1.1% of the total population of the country. [256]
First in Italian, then in both Greek and Italian, finally from 1850 in Greek and English; and it continued for the entire duration of the English Protectorate until 1864. Many Italian Jews took refuge in Corfu during the Venetian period and spoke their own language, a mixture of Hebrew and Venetian with some Greek words.
The Italian pronunciation of Hebrew is similar to that of conservative Spanish and Portuguese Jews. Distinguishing features are: beth rafe is pronounced [v]; he is often silent, as in the family name "Coen"; vav is normally [v] as in most Hebrew dialects, but can become [w] in diphthongs (as in the family name
Judeo-Roman (Italian: Giudaico-Romanesco) or Italkit is the only still living dialect of the Judeo-Italian languages, historically used by the Jews living in Rome. [1] It is spoken by 250 people, most of whom live in Italy. The language is on the decline and most of its remaining speakers are elderly. [1]