CFP: The Fourteenth International Conference on Jewish Names

[Yigal Levin]

Bar-Ilan Univeristy

The Faculty of Jewish Studies

The Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry The Project for the Study of Jewish Names

 

Announces

The Fourteenth International Conference

on

JEWISH NAMES

 

The conference will take place on Monday, June 3, 2019 at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.

 

Call for Papers

 

The conference committee welcomes papers on all aspects of Jewish onomastics (personal names, family names, epithets and place names) from the biblical period through the modern age, representing all Jewish communities world-wide and from all fields of research, including Judaic studies, Bible, rabbinic literature, linguistics, sociology, anthropology, genealogy, literature and toponymics. Papers may be delivered in Hebrew or English.

 

Scholars who wish to present papers are requested to send a 200 word abstract, clearly stating contribution, a selected bibliography, and a brief academic profile to Yigal...@biu.ac.il no later than February 28, 2019.

 

For further information please contact:

 

Professor Aaron Demsky

Director, Project for the Study of Jewish Names

E-mail: Aaron....@biu.ac.il