- Yona Sabar
Yona Sabar, (1938- ), is an
Iraqi Jewish scholar, linguist and researcher. He was born in the town ofZakho inIraqi Kurdistan . His family moved toIsrael in 1951. He received his B.A. in Hebrew and Arabic from theHebrew University of Jerusalem in 1963 and Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Literature fromYale University in 1970. He is currently professor of Hebrew atUCLA . He is a native speaker ofAramaic and has published more than 90 research articles about JewishNeo-Aramaic and the folklore of theKurdish Jews .His family's immigrant saga is the subject of a book, "My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for his Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq", written by Professor Sabar's son, Ariel Sabar, an American journalist, and published in September 2008.
Books
*"The Folk Literature of the Kurdistani Jews: An Anthology", Yale University Press, 232 pp., 1982. ISBN 0-300-02698-6
*"A Jewish Neo-Aramaic dictionary: dialects of Amidya, Dihok, Nerwa and Zakho, Northwestern Iraq", Harrassowitz, 337 pp., 2002. ISBN 3-447-04557-4External links
* [http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/nelc/faculty/sabar.htm Yona Sabar's web site]
* [http://www.arielsabar.com My Father's Paradise] by Ariel Sabar
* [http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/september/october_2000/hollywood_calling.html Hollywood Calling] by Ariel Sabar
* [http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/20133/ Prof. Sabar on the claim that Barzani is Jewish] by JTA
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