Applying analytical strategies from linguistics, literature, and history, Kirsten Fudeman demonstrates that language played a central role in the formation, expression, and maintenance of medieval Jewish identity and that it brought Christians and Jews together even as it set them apart.

Notes on Translations and Transcription and Typological Conventions
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The Medieval French Jewish Community in Its Linguistic Context
Chapter 1. Language and Identity
Chapter 2. Speech and Silence, Male and Female in Jewish-Christian Relations: Blois, 1171
Chapter 3. Texts of Two Colors
Chapter 4. Hebrew-French Wedding Songs: Expressions of Identity
Epilogue
Appendices
1. Hebraico-French Glosses and Texts
2. The Medieval Jewish Wedding Song 'Uri liqra'ti yafah, gentis kallah einoreie
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

Kirsten Fudeman teaches medieval French language and literature at the University of Pittsburgh.