Jewish history is inseparable from the wider languages of host civilizations

Evidence

The mere fact of the variety of languages needed for this study is a sufficient demonstration of the essential interconnection between Jewish history and what in Israel I have learnt to call general history, a term previously unknown to me. There are other languages besides Hebrew which are important to Jewish history and which, though not Jewish in origin, became in a sense Jewish languages-Aramaic, used in the two Talmuds and many other writings; Greek, no longer a Jewish language, but the medium of Josephus and perhaps more importantly Philo; Arabic, the vehicle of a rich Judaeo-Arabic culture which has for all practical purposes ceased to exist, but which has left us the heritage of Maimonides and Yehuda Halevi and Saadya and so many others. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 334

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Jews entered European history as a non-national inter-European element — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 110; Jewish assimilation pressures connect their history to broader minority experience — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 525; Jewish institutional life assimilated to whichever dominant culture surrounded it — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 328 (+6 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Jews entered European history as a non-national inter-European element — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 110; Jewish assimilation pressures connect their history to broader minority experience — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 525; Jewish institutional life assimilated to whichever dominant culture surrounded it — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 328 (+6 more)