Includes bibliographical references (p. 275) and index.

Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- LOVE AND REVERENCE FOR GOD: PRAYER -- HALĂXĀ AND MƎṢVŌT -- THE SABBATH -- THE CALENDAR CYCLE OF JEWISH HOLIDAYS -- THE LIFE CYCLE -- REFERENCES AND REFERENTS SYNOPSIS -- SEMANTIC REALITY. TRADITIONAL H.R. IN JJ -- EMOTIVE EXCLAMATIONS -- TABOO TERMS -- HYPERBOLE -- JUDAEO-JERUSALEM ARABIC AND JERUSALEM ARABIC IN CONCORD AND CONTRAST -- REGISTER—A MULTILATERAL SEMANTIC FACTOR IN JERUSALEM ARABIC SPEECH -- ABOUT THE DICTIONARY INDEX -- ARABIC SECTION (A.) -- HEBREW SECTION (H.) -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- STUDIES IN SEMITIC LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS.

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This volume deals with Judaeo-Jerusalem Arabic affected by Jewish socio-religious life, its interrelatedness with non-Jewish Jerusalem Arabic, and its erosion by youths through replacement by Hebrew. The socio-religious life of the Jewish community is first introduced, followed by descriptions of socio-linguistic processes of both dialect varieties, of integrating and discharging foreign borrowings, of lexico-semantic concord and contrast between both dialect varieties, of varieties relating to relative status of interlocutors, and of deteriorating Judaeo-Jerusalem Arabic replaced by modern Hebrew. A dictionary-like Arabic and Hebrew index ends the book. The diachronic and synchronic analyses and description of intricate and interrelated lexico-semantic communal dialectal varieties of Arabic and Hebrew in present-day Jerusalem is a most challenging linguistic achievement hopefully won here.