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Examples

  • And Primo Levi, in his autobiographical collection The Periodic Table, touches on the Judeo-Italian language used by his family and the local Jewish community.

    The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories Franz Kafka 2000

  • The rituals specifically associated with women were also treated extensively in special tractates circulated in Judeo-Italian, Yiddish or Italian.

    Italy, Early Modern. 2009

  • In addition, translations of the worship service were made in Judeo-Italian, for the benefit of both women and men who did not understand Hebrew.

    Italy, Early Modern. 2009

  • A manuscript version of a totally different text for women in Judeo-Italian was never published and as a result simply languished.

    Seder Mitzvot Nashim. 2009

  • In traditional Jewish languages such as Yiddish, Judeo-Italian, and Ladino, words of Hebrew-Aramaic origin, with connotations of high culture and refinement, are often used as euphemisms when referring to such taboo subjects as death, certain body parts, and bathroom functions.

    Foreign terms as convenient euphemisms mj 2009

  • In traditional Jewish languages such as Yiddish, Judeo-Italian, and Ladino, words of Hebrew-Aramaic origin, with connotations of high culture and refinement, are often used as euphemisms when referring to such taboo subjects as death, certain body parts, and bathroom functions.

    Another Scottish show that's hard to understand mj 2009

  • It appeared simultaneously with translations in Judeo-Italian, Judeo-Spanish and Judeo-German, the languages of the Jewish communities living in Venice at the time.

    Even if all of us were wise | Jewschool 2007

  • Yenta is from the early Judeo-Italian gentil ` well-born, noble, gentle, 'the very opposite, as Mr. Morgan points out, of the meaning it later acquired.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 3 1988

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