Chapter 5 Linguistic Variation in the Sephardic Community of Pisa (17th Century)
In: New Perspectives on Judeo-Spanish and the Linguistic History of the Sephardic Jews
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José Javier Rodríguez Toro
José Javier Rodríguez Toro
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Abstract
This chapter focuses on the study of different documents, dated 1660–1691, from volume number 1286 of the Archivio Storico della Comunità Ebrea of Pisa (Italy). The study is structured into seven sections corresponding to seven persons, namely, two merchants, a chancellor, a vice-chancellor, the head of the community, a beadle and, lastly, a woman: in short, a sample representative of the social spectrum of the human group in question. The aim pursued is to explain to what extent the preserved texts reflect the phonetic variation of the Spanish dialect used by Jews of the Hebrew community of Pisa in the second half of the 17th century.