Benjamin Hary

University of California, Berkeley, MA, 1979; PhD 1987

History of Jewish Languages; Jewish Religion, History, Society and Culture in the Islamic world; Judeo-Arabic Language and Linguistics; Corpus Linguistics and Modern Hebrew

Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies; Association Internationale du Moyen-Arabe (AIMA) [treasurer]; Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe (AÏDA); American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA); Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA); Association for Israel Studies (AIS); American Oriental Society (AOS); North American Conference on AfroAsiatic Linguistics (NACAAL); National Association of Professors of Hebrew (NAPH); Israeli Association for the Study of Language and Society (IALS); Association for Jewish Studies (AJS); European Association of Jewish Studies (EAJS); World Union of Jewish Studies; Omicron Delta Kappa – The National Leadership Honor Society.

2019–21
Edmond de Rothschild Foundation (Israel), Caesarea Maritima Project (above $815,000 for NYU Tel Aviv)

2010–13
Winship Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities, Emory University

2010–11
Fellow, Frankel Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Spring 2011, Research Group: “Jewish languages” “History of Judeo-Arabic”

2009–10
Lady Davis Visiting Professorship, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
“Jewish Sacred Texts from Egypt”
Emory University Research Committee
Research leave and funding, “Jewish Sacred Texts from Egypt”
Emory College Research Grant in Humanistic Inquiry
“Sacred Texts: The Tradition of Šar? in Egyptian Judeo-Arabic”
Emory Woodruff Funds
Grant to participate in European Association of Jewish Studies Meeting, Ravenna, Italy

2008–09
Emory University
Associate Professor Book Completion Leave, Spring 2008
Emory Woodruff Funds
Grant to participate in NAPH meeting, London, UK

2006–07
The Institute of International and Comparative Studies (ICIS), Emory
Grant to participate in NAPH Meeting, Sydney, 2007
The Institute of International and Comparative Studies (ICIS), The Center for International Programs Abroad (CIPA), Emory University
Outstanding Contribution to Study Abroad, 2006
The Institute of International and Comparative Studies (ICIS), Emory
Grant to participate in European Association for Jewish Studies Meeting, Moscow, 2006

2005–06
The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Visiting Skirball Fellow, February – July, 2005

2004–05
Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning, Emory University
The Halle Institute Emory Faculty Trip to India, January 2005
The Institute of International and Comparative Studies (ICIS), Emory
The ICIS International Teaching Award, 2004

2003–04
The Institute of International and Comparative Studies (ICIS), Emory
Grant to participate in Lenguas en contacto de la Antiguedad a la Edad Media, Madrid
The Institute of International and Comparative Studies (ICIS), Emory
Grant to participate in Jewish Languages as Translation Languages, Jerusalem

2002–03
The Institute of International and Comparative Studies (ICIS), Emory
Grant to participate in the European Association of Jewish Studies, Amsterdam

2001–02
Emory University Research Committee
Grant to fund phonetic transcriptions for CoSIH: The Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew
The Institute of International and Comparative Studies (ICIS), Emory
Grant, the pilot of CoSIH: The Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew
Jewish Studies Enrichment Fund, Emory University
Grant for CoSIH: The Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew

1998–99
The Institute of International and Comparative Studies (ICIS), Emory
Grant for the Tuscan Word Center workshop on Corpus Design, 1999

1997–98
The Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award
The university most prestigious award for teaching, 1998
University International Travel Grants
Funds to participate in AÏDA, Malta, 1998
University Teaching Committee Award
Developing the course, “The American Languages,” 1997

1995–96
Social Science Research Council
“Studies in Egyptian Judeo-Arabic Religious Translations,” Cairo, Egypt and Jerusalem, Israel, 1995

1994–95
Emory University Research Committee
Travel grant for “Studies in Egyptian Judeo-Arabic Religious Translations”
The International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization under the auspices of the President of Israel
Grant to participate at the Workshop on “The Place of Classical Hebrew in the Teaching of Modern Hebrew,” 1994; also in 1990–91
Emory University Summer Faculty Development Award, 1994
Emory University Research Committee Grant for “Studies in Egyptian Judeo-Arabic Šar?,” 1993

1987–94
Emory University Subvention grant; University Research Committee for research leave; summer faculty development awards
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture
International fellowship in Jewish Studies, 1990–91

1978–86
National Foundation for Jewish Culture
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships (two), 1985–87
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture
Doctoral Scholarships (four), 1979–84
The University of California, Berkeley
Distinguished Teacher, 1983–84; development grants (two); travel grants (five); graduate fellowship

“The Importance of Orthography in Judeo-Arabic Texts,” Proceedings of the Tenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Division D, Volume 1, Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, 1990. 77–84

“Towards Cultural Proficiency in Modern Israeli Hebrew,” Bulletin of Higher Hebrew Education 4/2, 1991. 21–37

“On the Use of ʾilā and li in Judeo-Arabic Texts,” Semitic Studies in Honor of Wolf Leslau, A. Kaye, ed., 1991. 595–608

“The Tradition of Later Egyptian Judeo-Arabic Orthography.” Massorot 5–6, 1991. 119–37. [in Hebrew]

“An Egyptian Judeo-Arabic Šarḥ of the Book of Esther,” Proceedings of the Eleventh World Congress of Jewish Studies, Division D, Volume 1, Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, 1994. 25–32

“Linguistic Notes on an Egyptian Judeo-Arabic Passover Haggadah and the Study of the Egyptian šarḥ,” Actes des premières journées internationales de dialectologie arabe de Paris, D. Caubet and M. Vanhove [eds.], Paris: INALCO, 1994. 375–88

“Judeo-Arabic in Its Sociolinguistic Setting,” Israel Oriental Studies, vol. 15: Language and Culture in the Near East: Diglossia, Bilingualism, Registers, S. Izre'el and R. Drory [eds.]. 1995. 129–55

“The Ǧīm/Gīm in Colloquial Urban Egyptian Arabic,” Israel Oriental Studies, vol. 16: Studies in Modern Semitic Languages, S. Izre’el and S. Raz [eds.], 1996. 153–68

“Adaptations of Hebrew Script,” The World’s Writing Systems, W. Bright and P. Daniels [eds.], Oxford University Press, 1996. 727–34 and 741–42

“The Importance of the Language Continuum in Arabic Multiglossia,” Understanding Arabic: Essays in Contemporary Arabic Linguistics in Honor of El-Said Badawi, A. Elgibali [ed.], Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1996. 69–90

“The Impact of the Cairo Genizah Documents on the Study of the History of Arabic,” Bulletin of the Israeli Academic Center in Cairo, Special Issue: The Cairo Genizah: One Hundred Years of Discovery, 21, 1997. 35–39

“On Later and Modern Egyptian Judeo-Arabic,” Humanism, Culture, and Language in the Near East: Studies in Honor of George Krotkoff, A. Afsaruddin and M. Zahniser [eds.], Indiana: Eisenbraus, 1997. 199–224

“Hebrew Elements in Egyptian Judeo-Arabic Texts,” Vena Hebraica in Judaeorum Linguis, S. Morag, M. Bar-Asher, M. Mayer-Modena [eds.], Milano: Università delgi Studi di Milano, 1999. 67–91

“Egyptian Judeo-Arabic Šarḥ – Bridging the Cultures of Hebrew and Arabic,” Judaism and Islam – Boundaries, Communication and Interaction: – Essays in Honor of William M. Brinner, B. Hary, J. Hayes, and F. Astren [eds.], Leiden, Boston and Köln: Brill, 2000. 395–407

“Egyptian Judeo-Arabic Šarḥ of Genesis,” Proceedings of the Third International Conference of AÏDA (Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe), Manwel Mifsud [ed.], Malta, 2000. 53–58

“Judeo-Arabic - A Diachronic Reexamination.” International Journal for the Sociology of Language 163, 2003. 61–75

“Jewish Languages—Are They Sacred?” Lenguas en contacto de la Antiguedad a la Edad Media, P. Bádenas de la Peña, S. Torallas Tovar, E. R. Luján, M. A. Gallego [eds.]. Madrid: CSIC, 2004. 225–44

“The Translation of Prepositions in Egyptian Judeo-Arabic Šurūḥ.” Afroasiatic Studies in Memory of Robert Hetzron, C. Häberl [ed.]. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. 183–94

“Religiolect.” Jewish Languages. Frankel Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2011

“Judeo-Arabic as A Mixed Language.” Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic: Diachrony and Synchrony, L. Zack and A. Schippers [eds.]. Leiden: Brill. 2012. 125–44

"Religiolinguistics: on Jewish-, Christian- and Muslim-defined languages." International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Volume 2013, Issue 220. Wein, M. 85–108

"Peoples of the Book - Religion, Language, Nationalism, and the Politics of Sacred Text Translation." Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Collaboration and Conflict in the Age of Diaspora. Wein, M. University Press, 2014. Chapter 1.  1-34

“Il-ʿarabi dyālna (Our Arabic): The History and Politics of Judeo-Arabic.” The Languages of Jewish Cultures: Comparative Perspectives, Anita Norich and Joshua Miller [eds.], Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. Chapter 11. 297-320.

“Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew as Languages in Contact: Some Theoretical Observations.” Carmillim for the Study of Hebrew and Related Languages 12, 2016. [13]–[30].

“Spoken Late Egyptian Judeo-Arabic as Reflected in Written Forms.” Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 44, 2017. 11–36.

“Judeo-Arabic in the Arabic-Speaking World.” In B. Hary and S. Benor [eds.]. Languages in Jewish Communities, Past and Present. Boston and Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton, 2018. 35–69.

“A Research Agenda for Comparative Jewish Linguistic Studies.” In B. Hary and S. Benor [eds.]. Languages in Jewish Communities, Past and Present. Boston and Berlin: Walter de Gruyter Mouton, 2018. 672–694.

The Languages of Jewish Cultures: Comparative Perspectives, Anita Norich and Joshua Miller [eds.], Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016 on pp. xi-xii