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BENJAMIN HARY
Associate Professor of Hebrew, Arabic and Linguistics
Ph. D. in Near Eastern Studies with specialization on Arabic Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley, 1987
Other Department/Program Affiliations: Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies
Program in Jewish Studies
OFFICE: Callaway Center, Rm S-309
PHONE: 404-727-7942
EMAIL: bhary@emory.edu
Professor Hary came to Emory in 1987. He was one of the original group of faculty that founded the Emory Program in Linguistics in 1995 and served as the Director of the Program from 1995 to 1998.
Prof. Hary's research focuses on the history and development of Jewish languages, with a particular emphasis on Arabic and Judeo-Arabic language
and linguistics. In 1992 he published the book, Multiglossia in Judeo-Arabic, With an Edition, Translation and Grammatical Study of the Cairene
Purim Scroll (Leiden: Brill). This work examined the nature of Judeo-Arabic, the language of the Jews in Arab lands, and included a thorough
linguistic analysis of a sixteenth-century Egyptian Judeo-Arabic text. It is considered the most comprehensive linguistic and grammatical study of
Later Judeo-Arabic. He has also co-edited another book on Judeo-Arabic and co-edited a book on Judaism and Islam. In addition, he is engaged in work in corpus linguistics and study of contemporary Israeli Hebrew. For instance, he has planned
the model (with Shlomo Izre'el of Tel Aviv University) for the Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew (CoSIH) and in 2003 published an edited book on this
project, Corpus Linguistics and Modern Hebrew .
Professor Hary is currently working on two projects. The first is a book entitled Studies in Egyptian Judeo-Arabic Religious Translations, which is a
study of the genre of the sharh , literal translations of Jewish sacred religious texts from Hebrew into Judeo-Arabic. In this two-volume project he aims to demonstrate
how the translations influenced Jewish identity and historical memory in Arab lands and how these were in turn motivated by questions of identity and memory.
The second project involves the analysis of Jewish language spectrum from a sociolinguistic point of view.
Teaching has also been an important focus of Prof. Hary's career. He regularly teaches Linguistics courses (for instance, Linguistics 201 Foundations of
Linguistics and Linguistics 326 History of the Judaic Languages) as well as courses in Jewish Studies and in Middle Eastern Studies. He is a recipient of The Emory William Distinguished Teaching Award in 1998 and The ICIS International Teaching Award in 2004. Heo has been recognized for his outstanding work with CIPA study abroad programs. For many years he has organized summer study
abroad programs in Israel (Israeli Culture and Society) or in Europe (Sephardi Culture in Europe ). He also led efforts to create the new Linguistics Study
Abroad Program in Amsterdam.
Prof. Hary's MESAS Faculty Page:
http://www.js.emory.edu/faculty/Hary/html/index1.htm
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