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Judeo-Persian

Teacher: Maximilian Kinzler (Beginners) & Dr Ofir Haim, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Advanced)

Class Level: Beginners & Advanced (basic knowledge of Persian is required for the Advanced class)

Class Schedule 2022-23: Beginners class Mondays from 18:30-19:30 UK Time, beginning during the week of 24 October 2022; Advanced class Tuesdays from 17:00-18:00 UK Time, beginning during the week of 24 October 2022

Class Length: Both 3-term classes (Michaelmas Term 2022-Trinity Term 2023)

Class Description: The classes will be dedicated to Judeo-Persian language and literature of the Jews of the Iranian world (present-day Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia). Students will be familiarized with a wide array of Judeo-Persian sources from as early as the 9th century CE onwards. By exploring these texts, we will discuss the evolution of Judeo-Persian from a diachronic and synchronic perspective, sociolinguistic aspects of Judeo-Persian and the literary and religious heritage of Persian-speaking Jewry in its wider Jewish and Islamic contexts.

Reference Materials:
Standard New Persian grammar and dictionaries:
-Hayyim, Suleyman. New Persian-English Dictionary. Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim, 1934-1936. Available online at <https://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/hayyim>.
-Mace, John. Persian Grammar: For Reference and Revision. London: Routledge, 2003.
-Yousef, Saeed and Hayedeh Torabi. Basic Persian: A Grammar and Workbook. London: Routledge, 2013.
Judeo-Persian language: 
-Gindin, Thamar E. ‘Judeo-Persian Communities viii. Judeo-Persian Language’. Encylopaedia Iranica, vol. XV, fasc. 2, pp. 132-139. Available online at <https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/judeo-persian-viii-judeo-persian-language>.
-Paul, Ludwig. A Grammar of Early Judaeo-Persian. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2013.
-Shaked, Sh. ‘Classification of Linguistic Features in Early Judeo-Persian Texts’. In Werner Sundermann et al. (eds.). Exegisti Monumenta: Festschrift in Honour of Nicholas Sims-Williams. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009, pp. 449–61.
Judeo-Persian history and literature:
-Moreen, Vera B. In Queen Esther’s Garden: An Anthology of Judeo-Persian Literature. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.
-Sarshar, Houman (ed.). Jewish Communities of Iran: Entries on Judeo-Persian Communities Published by the Encyclopedia Iranica. New York: Encyclopedia Iranica Foundation, 2011.
-Yeroushalmi, David. The Jews of Iran: Chapters in Their History and Cultural Heritage. Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 2016.

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