Provençal Jews have shabbes cassoulet ( Read more... )

• 16:43:46: Mati tells me she learned "nothing" today in cheder. Wow.
• 16:44:09: Mati asks her friends to buy her candies since he stopped buying so much (she had cramps). lol! and she knows right and left, wow!
• 19:34:57: Too fun! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamzer#Connection_with_French_Medieval_nicknames

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While putting some order (YES) into the books I am selling, I found an interesting one, "La Carrière: Les juifs du pape" (The Carrière - South French "ghetto" - : the Papal Jews). Google Comtat Venaissin and Jews ( Read more... )

Believe it or not, this is Orthodox ketuba of Alfred Dreyfus. Signed by the chief rabbi himself. Though both families were so assimilated even he didn't have or remember his Jewish name.

This is an interesting Mizrachi ketuba from Paris. The way the sofer writes shows you the education level in these days!

A horrible, tacky 1970's ketuba.

A ketuba all ( Read more... )

Tefillot Latini, Judeo-Italian prayer books for women
Judeo-Latin to Yiddish, through Judeo-Italian, Judeo-Provençal...
Not one but several Judeo-Italians
Chassidic bilinguism, Judeo-French and Jewish language switch
Judeo-Provençal as Lassan Hakodes, the origin of the Ashkenazic "s" instead of "t" and baruch she asani isha
Baruch shelo asani ish
Judeo- ( Read more... )

With Pessach approaching quickly, and a lot of new readers, some interesting links for you all!

How many languages at the seder?

Why not Judeo-Piedmontese?

In Yiddish, a bit weird, but yeah

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and a very nice Ladino version

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Judeo-French

Judeo-Italian

Judeo-Spanish / Ladino

Judeo-Arabic

I don't think I posted them already but maybe I did, sorry! lol