Now @AdrienneBoyarin on medieval English jews. Spoke French among themselves, while Hebrew was language of authority. No evidence that they spoke English.
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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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