Most of the nineteen essays presented in this book deal with tongues and traditions of Maghreb Judaism. The communities of Morocco are a central topic in this collection as well as essays dealing with documents from the Ghardaïa community in south Algeria. This collection also offers extensively studied records of practices and actions of other communities in the area. Most of the chapters are based on manuscripts and records from the collection of Jewish North-African manuscripts at the Yale University library. The first two parts of the appendix are dedicated to four Masoretes. Bar-Asher based quite a few of his researches on their spoken and written Masoretic texts.

This volume includes nine articles based on documents from the North- African collection of the Division of religion at Yale University. The annotated texts are edited and detailed discussions of issues arising from the documents are listed . Four documents from North- African countries are represented. This volume is a sequel to vol. 2 released in 2011. To view the other volumes please press here .

This volume offers twelve studies based on lectures delivered by participants of the workshop. These studies deal with culture and history, customs and traditions from all North African Jewish communities. The studies are to a large extent based on documents housed in the Yale University Library. This volume is a continuation of volume 1 that appeared in 2011. The articles in this volume: Moshe Bar-Asher – Moroccan Traditions on Worshippers of the Golden Calf and Profaned Priests Nathalie Akun – Vestiges of Eretz Israel in the Hebrew of Morocco Avishai Bar-Asher – Tablets and Fragments of Tablets: Some Notes on R. Yehuda b. Yoseph Al- Carasani's Aron ha- 'Edut Yaakov Bentolila – The Nineteenth-Century Book of Records from the Jewish Community of Tangier and Its Contribution to a Dictionary of Hebrew Elements in Haketia Ephraim Hazan and Rachel Hitin-Mashiah – Mi Khamokha, Local Piyyutim on Miraculous Deliverance in North African Jewish Communities Yehudit Henshke – The Judeo-Arabic Origins of Modern Israeli Idioms and Proverb s Nahem Ilan – A Letter of Intervention on Behalf of the Greek Patriarch Egypt Aharon Maman – Textual Metonymy in Jewish Languages Jessica M. Marglin – Cooperation and Competition among Jewish and Islamic Courts: Double Notarization in Nineteenth-Century Morroco Ariel Shaveh – Trends in Contemporary North African Prayer Books Joseph Tedghi – An Unpublished Responsum by Rabbi Yoseph Messas about Jewish Marriage Contracts Ofra Tirosh-Bedker – A Reflection of a Linguistic Reality: An Algerian Judeo-Arabic Book for the New Year To view the other volumes please press here .

This volume presents thirty studies in the fields of Biblical Hebrew, the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Aramaic. These studies deal with matters of orthography and grammar (phonology, morphology, and syntax), lexicology and semantics. There are also discussions of general topics as well as discussions of five Hebrew and Aramaic inscriptions. The studies are presented in four sections: Biblical Hebrew (seven articles); the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls (ten articles); External Inscriptions (five articles); Aramaic (eight articles).

This volume offers eleven studies based on lectures delivered at the symposium on research into North Africa Jewry which was held at Yale University in New Haven on April 25, 2010. The authors are scholars from eight universities and colleges in different countries, who are involved in research into different aspects of the history and culture of North Africa Jewry. To view the other volumes please press here .

This book features eight articles written by eight scholars from different universities in Israel. All the articles are based on documents from the Jewish collection of the Yale University Library, New-Haven. The researchers began processing the documents in the workshop held in the library in April 2010 and completed it upon their return to Israel. The documents illuminate different aspects in the halacha, history, practices and interpretation of North-African Jewry. To view the other volumes please press here .

The late Professor Shlomo Morag was one of the most prominent language researchers. He was one of the pioneers in the study of the traditions of the denominations, and was awarded the Israel Prize when he was only forty years old. Morag dealt with many aspects of Hebrew research. This book is a collection of his essays, and they deal with ancient and modern Hebrew language, Hebrew pronunciation and the form of words from the Middle Ages to the present day, Hebrew and its connections to the languages of the Jews, the connection of Hebrew to Hebrew culture and Hebrew education, and more.

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