Jewish Languages in Historical Perspective examines key sociolinguistic themes relating to the spoken and written language varieties employed by Jews in the Diaspora from antiquity until the twenty-first century. It includes chapters on Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic, Jewish Berber, Judeo-Italian, Karaim, Ladino, and Yiddish.

Lily Kahn, Ph.D. (2008), UCL, is Reader in Hebrew and Jewish Languages at UCL. Publications include A Grammar of the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew Tale (Brill, 2015) and Handbook of Jewish Languages, co-edited with Aaron D. Rubin (Brill, 2016).