She came from the most prominent converso family in the area. We must think about intersections of identity with ethnicity. Could be a coded discussion of converso identity (she mostly cites OT sources, etc). Deafnicity is a new coinage by deaf indigenous scholars.
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Many points of contact between jewish and Christian women. Christian women worked in jewish households, despite official rulings. They worked as wet nurses in Jewish households, etc. concern over this persisted among Christian and Jewish authorities.
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If we consider what languages would be spoken in such environments, we MUST include English. Linguistic diversity almost certain. Significant to our understanding of anti-Jewish polemic literature.
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Women’s ability to speak and understand multiple languages key to these tales. Code-switching is consistent among women in anti-Jewish literature, an English Christian stereotype of jewish women as “multi-tongued.”
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This evidence suggests scholarly ideas of Jewish linguistic “otherness” in England are incorrect.
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