Moshe Bar-Asher
Encyclopedia
Moshe Bar-Asher is an Israeli linguist and the president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language
in Jerusalem.
in 1951 when he was twelve years old.
Bar-Asher received his Ph.D from the Hebrew University in 1976. Between 1981 and 1983 he was chair of the university's Department of the Hebrew Language, and from 1983 to 1986 chair of the university's Institute for Jewish Studies. In 1987 he became vice president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language, of which he was appointed president in 1993.
.
Academy of the Hebrew Language
The Academy of the Hebrew Language was established by the Israeli government in 1953 as the "supreme institution for scholarship on the Hebrew language."-History:...
in Jerusalem.
Background
Bar-Asher was born in Ksar es Souk (modern Errachidia), Morocco, in 1939. He immigrated to IsraelAliyah
Aliyah is the immigration of Jews to the Land of Israel . It is a basic tenet of Zionist ideology. The opposite action, emigration from Israel, is referred to as yerida . The return to the Holy Land has been a Jewish aspiration since the Babylonian exile...
in 1951 when he was twelve years old.
Bar-Asher received his Ph.D from the Hebrew University in 1976. Between 1981 and 1983 he was chair of the university's Department of the Hebrew Language, and from 1983 to 1986 chair of the university's Institute for Jewish Studies. In 1987 he became vice president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language, of which he was appointed president in 1993.
Scholarship
Bar-Asher's scholarship has mainly been focused on three areas: Rabbinic Hebrew, Palestinian Syriac and Jewish languagesJewish languages
Jewish languages are the various languages and dialects that developed in Jewish communities around the world.Although Hebrew was the daily speech of the Jewish people for centuries, by the fifth century BCE, the closely related Aramaic joined Hebrew as the spoken language in Judea and by the third...
.
Awards and honors
- Eliezer Samson RosenthalEliezer Samson RosenthalRabbi Professor Eliezer Samson Rosenthal was a Rabbi, academic researcher of traditional Jewish literature, and chair of the Halakha Committee for The Movement for Torah Judaism.-References:...
Prize for Talmudic studies (1988) - Israel PrizeIsrael PrizeThe Israel Prize is an award handed out by the State of Israel and is largely regarded as the state's highest honor. It is presented annually, on Israeli Independence Day, in a state ceremony in Jerusalem, in the presence of the President, the Prime Minister, the Knesset chairperson, and the...
in the field of Hebrew language and Jewish languages (1993) - Honorary doctorate from the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations OrientalesInstitut national des langues et civilisations orientalesThe Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales is located in Paris, France. It was founded in 1795 after the French Revolution and is now one of the country's Grands établissements with a specialization in African, Asian, East European, Oceanian languages and civilisations...
(1995) - Yitzhak Ben-ZviYitzhak Ben-ZviYitzhak Ben-Zvi was a historian, Labor Zionist leader, the second and longest-serving President of Israel.-Biography:...
Prize for research into the customs of Oriental Jewry (2002) - Honorary doctorate from Haifa University (2005)
- Rothschild Prize (2008)
See also
- List of Israel Prize recipients
- List of Israeli Mizrahi Jews and Sephardi Jews
- Arthur Pereyre
- Janice RebiboJanice RebiboJanice Silverman Rebibo is a Boston-born Israeli poet who began writing in Hebrew in the mid-1980s.Janice Silverman Rebibo’s poems have been admired for having, “a new strength and the kind of courage that comprises a strategic breakthrough, a stance of both audacity and humor that adds something...