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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
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The rituals specifically associated with women were also treated extensively in special tractates circulated in Judeo-Italian, Yiddish or Italian.
Italy, Early Modern. 2009
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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
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A manuscript version of a totally different text for women in Judeo-Italian was never published and as a result simply languished.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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