Sarah Bunin Benor

List of John Benjamins publications in which Sarah Bunin Benor is involved.

Article

Benor, Sarah Bunin 2015 How Synagogues Became Shuls: The Boomerang Effect in Yiddish-Influenced English, 1895-2010 Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, attrition and change, Johannessen, Janne Bondi † and Joseph C. Salmons (eds.), pp. 217–233 | Article

This paper introduces the “boomerang effect,” the resurgence of substrate features that were previously on the wane. Among American Jews, Yiddish loanwords have waned and waxed over the past century, and in the domains of religion and popular culture, we currently see increased use of certain… read more