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Bernard Spolsky & Robert L. Cooper, The languages of Jerusalem. Oxford: Clarendon, 1991, Pp. xiv + 166.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2009

Daniel Lefkowitz
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712

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1 The contrast with Spolsky & Cooper's discussion of Jewish languages could not be more striking: in Chap. 4 they examine the characteristics of the Jewish population in excruciating detail. We learn, e.g., the occupations of each of the 242 Sephardi Jewish trading families who lived in Jerusalem in 1877 – down to the seven who were fowl- and egg-dealers (49)!