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Interests 1. Judeo-Arabic Language and Linguistics 2. Arabic Linguistics and Dialectology 3. History of Judaic Languages 4. Sociolinguistics, Dialectology, and Linguistic Corpus 5. Jewish History, Society and Culture in Arab Land 6. Proficiency-based Teaching of Hebrew and Arabic 7. Interactive Multimedia Software for Foreign Language Education
Education University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Publications
BooksPublished Multiglossia in Judeo-Arabic: With an Edition, Translation, and Grammatical Study of the Cairene Purim Scroll, in the series, Études sur le judaïsme médiéval, Tome XIV, Leiden, New York and Köln: E. J. Brill, 1992, pp. xviii+359. Reviews: Joshua Blau, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies LVII:1, 1994:228-9; Everett Rowson, Al-cArabiyya 28, 1995:147-152; Alan Kaye, Association for Jewish Studies Review 20/1, 1995:216-219; María Angeles Gallego,Miscelánea de Estudios Árabes y Hebraicos, Seccion de Hebreo, vol. 44, 1995:171-173. Judaism and Islam - Boundaries, Communication and Interaction: Essays in Honor of William M. Brinner, Co-Editor with F. Astern and J. Hayes, under submission.
Articles Published "La Versión Española de Maqre Dardeqe," Co-Author with María Ángeles Gallego. To appear in the Proceedings of the European Association of Jewish Studies. "Hebrew Elements in Egyptian Judeo-Arabic Texts," To appear in The Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Hebrew and Aramaic Elements in Jewish Languages. "A Judeo-Arabic Sabbatian Apocalyptic Hymn," Co-Author with Avraham Elqayam, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts, Volume Two, 1997:105-141. "Egyptian Judeo-Arabic ?ar? - Bridging the Cultures of Arabic and Hebrew," forthcoming in Judaism and Islam - Boundaries, Communication and Interaction: - Essays in Honor of William M. Brinner, F. Astern, B. Hary, and J. Hayes [eds.]. "The Impact of the Cairo Genizah Documents on the Study of the History of Arabic," Bulletin of the Israeli Academic Center in Cairo, Special Issue: The Cairo Genizah: One Hundred Years of Discovery, 21, 1997:35-39. "On Later and Modern Egyptian Judeo-Arabic," Humanism, Culture, and Language in the Near East: Studies in Honor of George Krotkoff, A. Afsaruddin and M. Zahniser [eds.], Indiana: Eisenbraus, 1997:199-224. "The Importance of the Language Continuum in Arabic Multi-glossia," Understanding Arabic: Essays in Contemporary Arabic Linguistics in Honor of El-Said Badawi, A. Elgibali [ed.], Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1996:69-90. "The ©m/Gm in Colloquial Urban Egyptian Arabic," Israel Oriental Studies, vol. 16: Studies in Modern Semitic Languages, S. Izre'el and S. Raz [eds.], 1996:153-168. "Adaptations of Hebrew Script," The World's Writing Systems, W. Bright and P. Daniels [eds.], Oxford University Press, 1995:727-734 and 741-742. "Judeo-Arabic
in Its Sociolinguistic Setting," Israel Oriental Studies, vol. 15:
Language and Culture in the Near East: Diglossia, Bilingualism, Registers,
S. Izre'el and R. Drory [eds.], 1995:129-155.
"Linguistic Notes on an Egyptian Judeo-Arabic Passover Haggadah and the Study of the Egyptian ?ar?," Actes des premières journées internationales de dialectologie arabe de Paris, D. Caubet and M. Vanhove [eds.], Paris: INALCO, 1994:375-388. "An Egyptian Judeo-Arabic ?ar? of the Book of Esther," Proceedings of the Eleventh World Congress of Jewish Studies, Division D, Volume 1, Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, 1994:25-32. "On the Use of 'il® and li in Judeo-Arabic Texts," Semitic Studies in Honor of Wolf Leslau, A. Kaye, ed., 1991:595-608. "The Tradition of Later Egyptian Judeo-Arabic Orthography," Massorot 5-6, 1991:119-137 [in Hebrew]. "Towards Cultural Proficiency in Modern Israeli Hebrew," Bulletin of Higher Hebrew Education 4/2, 1991:21-37. "Hebrew Proficiency Guidelines for Speaking, Listening, writing and Reading," Co-Author, Bulletin of Higher Hebrew Education 4/2, 1991:106, 1-35 plus 12 pages of writing samples. "The Importance of Orthography in Judeo-Arabic Texts," Proceedings of the Tenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Division D, Volume 1, Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, 1990:77-84. "The Provisional Hebrew Proficiency Guidelines," Co-Author, Bulletin of Higher Hebrew Education 4/1, 1989:14-22. "Middle Arabic
-- Proposals for New Terminology," Al-cArabiyya 22, 1989:19-36.
Book Reviews and Review Articles Review of M. Bar-Asher, La composante hebraïque du judeo-arabe Algerien: Communautes de Tlemcen et Aïn-Temouchent, Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1992, Hebrew Studies 37, 1996:217-221. Review of J. Mansour, The Jewish Baghdadi Dialect, Studies and Texts in the Judaeo-Arabic Dialect of Baghdad, Or-Yehuda, Israel: The Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center, 1991, Association for Jewish Studies Review, 19/2, 1994:297-299. Review of R. Brann, The Compunctious Poet: Cultural Ambiguity and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain, Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991, Middle Eastern Studies Association Bulletin 27/2, 1993:285-286. Review Article of J. Blau, Studies in Middle Arabic and its Judaeo-Arabic Variety, Jerusalem: The magnes Press, The Hebrew University, 1988, Journal of Afroasiatic Languages 3, 1991/92: 67-71. Review of A. Corré, A 'Diskionary' and Chrestomathy of Modern Literary Judeo-Arabic, Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Language Resource Center Software, 1989, Journal of the American Oriental Society 111/3, 1991:612-613. Review of N. Stillman, The Language and Culture of the Jews of Sefrou, Morocco, Louvin: University of Manchester, 1988, Journal of the American Oriental Society 111/3, 1991:608-609. Review of J. Blau, Judaeo-Arabic Literature: Selected Texts, Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University, 1980, Zeitschrift für arabische Linguistik 11, 1983:90-91.
Instructional Materials Aleph Bet: Introduction to the Hebrew Alphabet, Co-Developer and Writer [with Steven Taylor] of this Interactive Multimedia Program using the QuickTime® videos and the Macintosh Hypercard, 1994 . Editor, "Hebrew 108 - Levels in Modern Hebrew", The University of California, Berkeley, 1984. Editor, "A Textbook for Arabic 100 - Arabic Grammar and Syntax," The University of California, Berkeley, 1983.
In Progress Studies in Egyptian Judeo-Arabic Religious Translations, a study of the genre of the ·ar? - literal translations of Jewish sacred religious texts, biblical or liturgical, from Hebrew into Judeo-Arabic, which demonstrates how the translations influenced Jewish identity and Historical Memory in Arab lands and were motivated by them. Studies in Maqre Dardeqe, a linguistic study of a medieval biblical dictionary in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic and Judeo-Spanish, Co-Author with María Ángeles Gallego, my postdoctoral student. Linguistic Corpus for Spoken Hebrew, creating a corpus of spoken Hebrew in order to facilitate interdisciplinary research among a range of disciplines concerned with the Hebrew language as it is spoken in Israel today and publicly disseminating this corpus in multimedia format (with Shlomo Izre'el. Tel Aviv University). "A Judeo-Arabic
Document from the Ein Shams Genizah," Co-Author with Ali Atiyya.
Papers Delivered 1998 Middle Eastern Studies Association, Chicago1997 Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO XXVI), Los Angeles1996
Workshop on "The Place
of Classical Hebrew in the Teaching of Modern Hebrew," sponsored by the
International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization under
the auspices of the President of Israel, Jerusalem
National Association of Professors of Hebrew, Berkeley "Use of Interactive Multimedia for Hebrew Instruction" [with Steven Taylor]
Eleventh World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem "Linguistic Notes on an Egyptian Judeo-Arabic 8ar? of the Book of Esther" The Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel "Cultural and Linguistic Background of Megillat pÇrm il-mi?riyyn (1524)" [in Hebrew] Bridging the Worlds of Islam and Judaism - An International Conference in Honor of William Brinner, Berkeley "Egyptian Judeo-Arabic 8ar? - Bridging the Cultures of Arabic and Hebrew" Journées de Dialectologie Arabe, Paris "Linguistic Notes on an Egyptian Judeo-Arabic Passover Haggadah and the Study of the Egyptian 8ar?"
North American Conference on AfroAsiatic Linguistics, Cambridge "The Cairo Collection"
Pre-Congress - On Problems of Teaching Modern Hebrew, Jerusalem "Progress Report: The State of the Hebrew Proficiency Guidelines" National Association of Professors of Hebrew, Chicago "Towards Cultural Proficiency in Modern Israeli Hebrew"
North American Conference on AfroAsiatic Linguistics, Chicago "Linguistic Notes on an Egyptian Judeo-Arabic Folktale from the Seventeenth Century"
North American Conference
on AfroAsiatic Linguistics, Los Angeles
American Oriental Society and North American Conference on AfroAsiatic Linguistics, New Haven "Towards a Model of Arabic Diglossia"
American Oriental Society and North American Conference on AfroAsiatic Linguistics, Ann Arbor "Middle Arabic - New Terminology"
 
Invited Lectures 1998 Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv1997
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv "The Sociolinguistic Background of the genre of the 8ar? in Egyptian Judeo-Arabic" [in Hebrew]
Hebrew University, Jerusalem "The Cultural and Linguistic Background of the Purim Scroll of the Cairene Jewish Community" [in Hebrew]
Emory University, Atlanta "Who are the Karaite [Jews]?"
Dartmouth College, Hanover "More on Arabic Diglossia"
Public Scholarship MEDIA INTERVIEWS July 1997 Ha'Aretz newspaper, Tel Aviv, Israel, Interviewed about the Emory summer program in Israel, goals and achievements
1997 Emory University
Special Seminars / Workshops Participant 1998 Workshop for Corpus Linguistics at the NWAVE-27, Athens, GA1994
Workshop on "Hebrew Language," sponsored by the International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization under the auspices of the President of Israel, Jerusalem
Teaching Experience 1994--
Associate Professor of Hebrew and Arabic Director of the Program in Linguistics Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Jewish Studies Coordinator for Hebrew Teaching Tel Aviv University1988-1994
Assistant Professor of Hebrew and Arabic Director of Hebrew Program
Visiting Lecturer in Judeo-Arabic
Visiting Assistant Professor of Hebrew
Instructor of Hebrew University of California, Los Angeles1979-85
Teaching Assistant to Associate to Acting Instructor of Hebrew and Arabic Coordinator of Arabic Supervised staff of four teachers Developed a new program of simultaneous teaching of literary and colloquial varieties of Arabic
Instructor of Hebrew and Arabic
Instructor of Hebrew and Consultant Developed instructional materials for Hebrew
Courses Taught
Undergraduate Courses History of Judaic Languages
Language Courses Accelerated and non-accelerated Elementary Hebrew
Graduate Courses Seminar: Reading in Egyptian Judeo-Arabic Texts
Dr. María Ángeles Gallego García (Fullbright recipient), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, "Maqre Dardeqe in Judeo-Arabic and Judeo-Spanish," 1997-1999 (at Emory University under my supervision) Supervision of M.A. Beatrice Wallins, "The History of the Hebrew Language," with distinction, 1998 Supervised B.A. Honor Theses Araon B. Fisher, "The Ties that Bind: The Unique Relationship between the Israeli Government, Gush Emunim and Eretz Yisrael," 1996/97 Jeffrey A. Levi, "The American Media and Israel: The Six-Day War and the War in Lebanon," 1995/96 (High Honors) Kevin Martin, "Israelis and Palestinians; The Intifada and the Oslo Agreements," 1994/95 (High Honors)
Service to the Profession Reviewer of abstracts for CSDL-4, 1998 Member, organizing committee for CSDL-4, 1998 (Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language) Reviewer for Al-cArabiyya, 1995-97 Reviewer for Hebrew Union College Annual, 1995/96 Reviewer for Hebrew Studies, 1988/89, 1991-94 Prospects for Peace in the Middle East II: Challenges and Hopes, (Elizabeth Fernea, Director), Board Member, 1994/95 Member of the National Committee on Hebrew Proficiency Guidelines, 1989/90 Regional Coordinator of the National Committee on Hebrew Proficiency Guidelines, 1988/89 The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama Outside examiner and Consultant in Hebrew, 1988-90, 1991-96 Chair of the local arrangement committee for the 1990 meeting of the American Oriental Society and North American Conference on AfroAsiatic Linguistics, Atlanta, 1989/90 Convener of the 1989 meeting of the North American Conference on AfroAsiatic Linguistics, New Orleans, 1988/89 Convener of the 1987 meeting of the North American Conference on AfroAsiatic Linguistics, Los Angeles, 1986/87
Service to the University Director of the Linguistic Program, Emory University, 1995/96 - Chair of the Linguistics Group, Emory University, 1994/95 Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Jewish Studies, 1994 - Chair, the Tenenbaum Family Lecture Series in Judaic Studies, 1996 - Chair, Emory Spring Semester in Israel Committee, 1996- Lecturer in TATTO Summer Course for Graduate students, 1992 - 1996 Leader of a Freshman Seminar, Emory University, 1988/89 - 1996/97 Member of Promotion Committees, Emory University, 1994/95, 1995/96, 1996/97 Chair, sub-committee/Humanities, Curriculum Committee, Emory College, 1989/90 Chair, Ad-hoc committee to examine minimum requirements for majors and minors, Emory College, 1989/90 Member of the Curriculum Committee, Emory College, 1988/89 Member of Admissions and Scholarships Committee, Emory University, 1995/96 Member of the Steering Committee of the Freshmen Seminar, Emory College, 1988/89 Member of the Foreign Language Computing Lab Steering Committee, 1992-93 Participant of the Program for Computer-Assisted Instruction, 1993/94 Member of Emory Jewish Council, 1988-90 Member of Hillel Community Board, 1989/90, 1991/92 Member of the Search Committees for a position in Jewish Law and Ethics, Department of Religion, 1993/94 Member of the Search Committees for a position in Judaic Studies, Department of Religion, 1991/92 Chair, the Committee of the Emory Semester Program in Tel Aviv University, 1996- Director of the Emory Spring Semester in Israel (Tel Aviv University), 1998 Director of the Emory Summer Experience in Israel, 1989, 1995-98 Co-Director of Emory Mediterranean Summer Study Tour (The Sephardi Experience) in commemoration of the quincentennial anniversary of the expulsion of Jews from Spain, 1991/92 Member of the Search Committees for a position in Hebrew Language, Literature and Culture, Department of MES, 1997/98 Member of the Search Committees for a position in Hebrew Language and Literature, Department of MES, 1996/97 Member of the Search Committees for a position in Persian Language and Literature, Department of MES, 1996/97 Member of the Search Committees for a position in Arabic, Department of NEJLL, 1993/94 Member of the Search Committees for a position of a Chair for the Department of NEJLL, 1991/92 Member of the Search Committees for positions in Hebrew and Arabic, Department of NEJLL, 1989/90 Member of the Near Eastern Studies Advisory Committee, 1988-90 Advisor, Majors in Near Eastern Studies (MINES), 1991/92 Acting Director, Near Eastern Studies, Emory University, 1991/92 Acting Director, Judaic Languages and Literature, Emory University, 1992 (Spring) Coordinator for Hebrew Teaching, Emory University, 1996 - Director of the Hebrew Program in Language and Literature, Emory University, 1988-90 Acting Director of the Hebrew Program, Emory University (Spring), 1988 Coordinator of first-year Arabic language instruction, University of California, Berkeley, 1983-85
Fellosships , Awards, and Grants 1998 · The Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award1997/97 · University International Travel Grants1994/5
Memberships Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies, National Association of Professors of Hebrew, Association for Jewish Studies, World Union of Jewish Studies, International Association of Arabic Dialectology, American Association of Teachers of Arabic, Modern Language Association, Linguistics Society of America, Linguistic Association of the Southwest, Middle Eastern Studies Association, American Oriental Society, North American Conference on AfroAsiatic Linguistics, Omicron Delta Kappa - The National Leadership Honor Society.
Languages Native speaker of Hebrew and near-native fluency in English and Arabic. Reading proficiency in French, German, Italian, Persian, and Latin. Chaired Sessions at Conferences
Association Internationale
de Dialectologie Arabe (AÏDA 3), Malta
1997 Arabic Linguistic
Society, Atlanta
1994 National Association
of Professors of Hebrew, Berkeley
1992 Middle Eastern
Studies Association, Portland
1990 National Association
of Professors of Hebrew, New York
1988 Middle Eastern
Studies Association, Los Angeles
North American
Conference on AfroAsiatic Linguistics, Chicago
1987 North American
Conference on AfroAsiatic Linguistics, Los Angeles
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