lecture this Sunday: language and the Baghdadi Jewish Diaspora

[Sarah Benor]

Dear Jewish languages list,

Here's an event many of you will be interested in:

The HUC-JIR Jewish Language Project presents:

Echoes of Judeo-Arabic in the Baghdadi Jewish Diaspora

Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah

Response by Benjamin Hary
Sunday, July 11, 10am Pacific, 1pm Eastern, 7pm Netherlands, 8pm Israel

Registration: https://huc-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ODxyXmUdSuOjN8ef3i50sA

Historian Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah received her doctorate from Leiden University in 2019. She is the author of Baghdadi Jewish Networks in the Age of Nationalism and co-editor of Modernity, Minority, and the Public Sphere: Jews and Christians in the Middle East. Sasha is currently the digital curator of the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam. As of August 2021 she will be Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Groningen.

Sociolinguist Benjamin Hary is director of New York University Tel Aviv and Professor of Judaic and Hebrew Studies at NYU. Hary earned his PhD in Near Eastern Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and is especially interested in the connection between language and religion. His books include Multiglossia in Judeo-Arabic, Translating Religion, Languages in Jewish Communities, Past and Present, and the forthcoming Sacred Texts in Judeo-Arabic.

You can see more about past and upcoming events here:

https://www.jewishlanguages.org/events

Sarah Bunin Benor

Director, Jewish Language Project

Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies and Linguistics

Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion