Journal of Jewish Languages

Aims & Scope

The peer-reviewed Journal of Jewish Languages (JJL) constitutes a venue for academic research in the multifaceted field of Jewish Languages.

Jewish languages are the languages spoken and written by Jews in their communities around the world.

Among these are Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Arabic, Jewish Aramaic, Judeo-Italian, Judeo-French, Judeo-Provençal, Judeo-Persian, Jewish English, Jewish Malayalam and more.

Although these belong to a variety of genealogical language families, Jewish languages have common linguistic features, thus constituting a distinct field of research.

The Journal of Jewish Languages encourages comparative studies across the different Jewish languages as well as in-depth linguistic and philological research of the individual languages and their varieties.

The JJL promotes studies that focus on diverse aspects, such as the interactions of these languages with other languages (especially Hebrew, Aramaic, and the surrounding non-Jewish languages), sociolinguistics, translation traditions, and more.

Articles in this journal focus on medieval, modern, and contemporary Jewish languages and are based on manuscripts, printed material, orally transmitted translations, field work recordings, online speech samples, and other sources.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.4
2024	0.30

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.166

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	7

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	23357

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	12

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
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• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Contested Stance Practices in Secular Yiddish Metalinguistic Communities: Negotiating Closeness and Distance

  Citation: 20

  Authors: Netta

• Superfluous Negation in Modern Hebrew and Its Origins

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Aynat, Ivy, Avigail

• The Usual Suspects: Slavic, Yiddish, and the Accusative Existentials and Possessives in Modern Hebrew

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Moshe

• The Erasure of Hasidic Yiddish from Twentieth Century Yiddish Linguistics

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Chaya R.

• On the Mizraḥi Sociolect in Israel: A Sociolexical Consideration of the Hebrew of Israelis of North African Origin

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Yehudit

• Bobover Yiddish: “Polish” or “Hungarian?”

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Benjamin, Alyssa

• New Notes on the Rise-Fall Contour

  Citation: 6

  Authors: Rachel Steindel

• Patterns of Dislocation: Judeo-Arabic Syntactic Influence on Modern Hebrew

  Citation: 5

  Authors: Yehudit

• How Yiddish is Haredi Satmar Yiddish?

  Citation: 5

  Authors: Steffen

• Arabic Codes in Hebrew Texts: On the Typology of Literary Code-switching

  Citation: 5

  Authors: Mohamed A. H.

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