Fil: Laham Cohen, Rodrigo Jaime. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Oficina de Coordinacion Administrativa Saavedra 15. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Historia y Ciencias Humanas; Argentina

Conditionality and concessivity are two linguistic categories that are closely related. So far, they have hardly been studied in Judeo-Spanish. This article helps closing this research gap. As its main objective, the paper offers a synthesis of the linguistic mechanisms of conditional and concessive expression in Sephardic texts from 1880 to 1930. The considered linguistic mechanisms do not only include syntactic aspects but also semantic, pragmatic and contextual ones. Next to the prototypical conditional and concessive clauses, two further, peripheral categories will be presented: the pseudo-conditionals and the concessive conditionals. For the history of Judeo-Spanish, the mentioned decades are characterized by processes of expanding and modernizing the language. This development is primarily influenced by the contact with French and Italian and can not only be observed in the lexicon but also in syntactic structures such as the conditional and concessive clauses.

Itzhak Ben Ruby (1903-1977) was one of the most prominent Judeo-Spanish writers in the twentieth century. Best known as “Chimon-Chimon”, pseudonym adopted by him for his humorous character, Ben Ruby dabbled in all genres of modern literature written in Judeo-Spanish: poetry, novel, drama and journalism. He was the founder and the director of El Tiempo (Tel Aviv 1950-1967) the political and literary weekly written in Judeo-Spanish. This article provides, for the first time, a comprehensive biography of Ben Ruby and a list of all his known original writings and his literary translations: poems, short stories, novels and theater plays.

Rabbi Raphael Aharon Monsonego was a Moroccan rabbi who lived in the 18th-19th centuries. His literary creation is extensive, and apart from halachic texts he wrote a series of poems that are characterized by abundant use of the calembour technique. The calembour (in English, pun ) is a specific type of allusion used by North African Jewish poets and writers. Like all allusions it is based on “a meeting of two texts, one implicit – i.e., in our consciousness and memory, and the other explicit – i.e., in the actual text in front of us.” A calembour differs from other types of allusions in that it consists of “phonetic and spelling changes in the words, idioms and fragmented verses in order to gain a humorous effect and other associative allusion.” Namely, in the calembour a word or phrase from a biblical or rabbinic text is presented “with a minimal change in letter or vowel etc. […] creating a witticism or a new meaning.” The author assumes, then, that the reader is able to intuitively identify the original text despite the changes made and even enjoy and appreciate the linguistic witticism since he is well-versed in the Jewish sources (especially the Hebrew Bible and halachic literature). The aim of this paper is to examine the use of the calembour in Monsonego’s poetry through several examples of its different forms and especially through the analysis of one of the poems that features a larger use of this technique: “Im omar avo ha-‘ir” (‘If I resolve to arouse lament’).

Using mainly unpublished sources of the royal chancery and Inquisition proceedings the author provides profiles of individuals and their families among a Jewish minority of Spanish origin in Portugal from the restoration of the Avis dynasty (1383) to the expulsions and forced baptism of the Jews. In this second part, it is exemplified the mobility of the Jewish immigrants as a consequence of the social and political instability.

A raíz de la conquista de la ciudad, el rey Jaime I delimita en 1244 en Valencia un espacio para los judíos. Con esta finalidad, hace referencia a cinco puntos de los que, hasta el momento, solo se conocía la ubicación exacta de la puerta de la Xerea. El análisis de las propiedades limítrofes con estos hitos en los listados de los registros I y III del Llibre del Repartiment ha permitido determinar la ubicación de los otros cuatro puntos, pudiendo comprobar que los baños de Amnalmelig se encontraban al sur del barrio judío contrariamente a lo que, hasta ahora, se había pensado. Los resultados de la investigación se han plasmado sobre planos actuales, reconstruyendo el urbanismo de la época basándose en la cartografía más antigua de la ciudad (Mancelli [1608] y Tosca [1704]), en informes arqueológicos y en los vestigios de calles actualmente desaparecidas que han pasado a formar parte de propiedades privadas.

En el octavo y último volumen de la Biblia Regia de Amberes Benito Arias Montano publicaba un breve texto titulado De Psalterii Anglicani exemplari animaduersio. En el marco de su defensa del original hebreo del Antiguo Testamento, su autor consideraba necesario advertir al lector de que algunos de los manuscritos más apreciados por los llamados «misohebreos» de su tiempo carecían de todo valor. Para ello, Arias Montano examinó un manuscrito hebreo del salterio elogiado como muy antiguo y relevante por el poderoso obispo Guillermo D. Lindano, y concluía que el códice era reciente y de escaso valor, cargando de paso contra la reputación científica de este. El ataque, fundamentado en parte en una falsa denuncia, sería el punto de partida de una controversia personal y científica que se extiende durate más de quince años. El presente artículo llama la atención sobre el hecho de que en los ejemplares conservados de la Políglota se pueden leer dos versiones de la Animaduersio montaniana muy diferentes entre sí. Con objeto de aclarar las circunstancias y motivos que las originaron, el autor propone: (1) reunir en un único estudio, por vez primera, el texto latino y la traducción al español de las dos versiones de la Animaduersio; (2) investigar, a la luz de la correspondencia privada de Arias Montano y de Lindano, las razones que propiciaron la existencia de dos versiones tan distintas de este prefacio; (3) y conjeturar una datación aproximada para cada una de las versiones.

Se ofrece el texto y la traducción castellana del esbozo de traducción latina de la Reposta ahum papel de Moisés Rafael de Aguilar (m. 1679) que llevó a cabo Johann Christoph Wolf (1683-1739). El documento autógrafo de este intento de traducción se conserva en Hamburgo, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Theol. 1831. El texto portugués original es un escrito anticristiano que conoció una considerable difusión en diversos círculos protestantes, antitrinitarios y ateos durante el siglo XVIII. Dicha difusión ha sido estudiada por Martin Mulsow; sin embargo, el texto en sí todavía carece de edición.

[EN] The foundation of the International Organization of Masoretic Studies (IOMS) in 1972 was a turning point in the studies on Masorah. Since then, Masoretic studies have undergone a true renaissance. The publications on Masoretic issues have proliferated, and the importance of the Masorah for the study of the text of the Hebrew Bible has been stressed in numerous reviews. This brief survey presents the evolution of Masoretic studies, the main research lines and achievements, and some of the most relevant works in the last forty years

This article includes the edition of several documents containing the last wills by ten Jews (five men and five women), nine from Huesca and one from Calatayud, all but the first dated in the mid-decades of the 15 th century, that were issued before Christian notaries. As far as possible, the author has tried to sketch a bio of the legators with the assistance of data extracted from the notarial protocols in the Archivo Historico Provincial de Huesca. The author deals, too, with a number of considerations concerning the economic life of these individuals and the familial relationships between Jews and converts.