Researchers
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By Name
A
- Arnold, Rafael: Germany; Ladino translations, Judeo-Spanish, languages of the Sephardim in Italy (16th/17th century), language contact
- Aronson, Howard I.: United States; structure of Yiddish, Yiddish and Slavic
- Ascher, Gloria J.: United States; teaching and learning Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Spanish folklore, music, tradition, Judeo-Spanish literature
- Ashur, Amir: Israel; Judeo-Arabic, Cairo Geniza
B
- Bar-Asher, Moshe: Israel; Hebrew (Biblical Hebrew, Qumran Hebrew, Modern Hebrew, and especially Mishnaic Hebrew), Aramaic (Targumim and Palestinian Aramaic in particular), oral linguistic traditions of North African Jews in Hebrew and in Arabic and their customs, Sharh (Jewish Arabic translations of the Bible in the Maghreb), oral linguistic traditions and customs of Jews in France
- bar-Lev, Zev: United States; Hebrew teaching, Hebrew morphophonology, Hebrew lexical semantics and lexicon
- Baumgarten, Jean: France; linguistics of Jewish languages, history of the Yiddish language, Old Yiddish literature
- Benor, Sarah Bunin: United States; sociolinguistics, American Jewish English, Yiddish, Ladino / Judezmo / Judeo-Spanish, Jewish languages / comparative Jewish linguistics, language contact
- Berger, Shlomo: Netherlands; Yiddish (especially pre-modern: up to 1800)
- Bernstein, Cynthia: United States; Language variation: regional and ethnic varieties of the Southern United States
- Bolozky, Shmuel: United States; phonology, morphology, Hebrew phonology and morphology, foreign language teaching methodology
- Bornes-Varol, Marie-Christine: France; Judeo-Spanish, Jews of the Ottoman Empire, contact languages, Judeo-Spanish archive, database on proverbs of medieval Iberia and Judeo-Spanish diaspora
- Bunis, David M.: Israel; Judezmo studies, Yiddish studies, comparative Jewish linguistics
C
D
- De Benedetti, Jana L.: United States; Judeo-Italian, Judeo-Roman, teaching Hebrew as a foreign language, multimedia Hebrew learning
- den Besten, Hans: Netherlands; Yiddish syntax, historical phonology of West Yiddish, Yiddish component of Dutch and German crypotolects and of Post-Yiddish Dutch and German
- Duchowny, Alexia T.: Brazil; Judeo-Spanish
E
F
- Fishman, Joshua A.: United States; Yiddish (19th, 20th and 21st centuries in Orthodox and in secular circles), Judezmo and Israeli Hebrew in religious and secular circles, mutual influences between English and Yiddish (including but not limited to Yeshivish/Yinglish), the great pioneers of Jewish interlinguistics in Eastern, Central and Western Europe (19th and 20th centuries), sociolinguistic theory regarding the rise and fall of Jewish languages
- Fleischer, Jürg D.: Germany; Yiddish (especially Western Yiddish), Judeo-German, dialectology, language contact and historical linguistics of Yiddish
- Fudeman, Kirsten: United States; Hebraico-French texts and glosses
G
- Gallego, Maria Angeles: Spain; Medieval Judeo-Arabic, Karaites, sociolinguistics
- Gindin, Thamar: Israel; Judeo-Persian, Judeo-Yazdi
- Glasser, Paul: United States; Yiddish, Eastern Europe
- Glinert, Lewis: United States; sociology and linguistics of Hebrew and Yiddish
- Grossman, David: Israel; Hebrew and Yiddish language, linguistics and computing, Hebrew/L2 bilingualism
H
- Halévy, Michael S.: Germany; general and applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, Judeo-Romance languages, Judezmo, Marrano-Diaspora
- Hary, Benjamin: United States; Judeo-Arabic (general, linguistics, history, orthography, Egyptian), Hebrew (history, Spoken Israeli), Jewish English, comparative linguistics of Jewish languages, Hebrew and Aramaic components in Jewish languages, translations of sacred texts in Jewish languages, sociolinguistics, language contact, language change, language variation
- Hassán, Iacob M.: Spain; Ladino / Judeo-Spanish, Hakitia
- Held, Michal: Israel; Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) language, literature, culture and identity
- Hoberman, Robert D.: United States; Modern Aramaic, Semitics, Premodern Aramaic and Hebrew
I
- Isaacs, Miriam: United States; Yiddish language and culture, language and society, languages of Haredim
J
- Jerchower, Seth: United States; general linguistics, linguistic theory, syntax, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology, historical linguistics, corpus processing, character set development, Judeo-Italian, Judeo-Greek, Judeo-Romance languages, Judeo-X languages, Romance languages, Latin, Indo-European languages, Semitic languages, Genizah studies
- Jochnowitz, George: United States; Judeo-Italian, Judeo-Provençal, comparative Jewish linguistics
K
- Kahan Newman, Zelda: United States; "Jewish" sound of Ashkenazic speech, Yiddish grammar, interface of Yiddish grammar and Hebrew grammar, Yiddish literature, Hebrew literature, interface of Yiddish literature and Hebrew literature, traditional Ashkenaz and women's literature, Ashkenazic culture, philosophy of language
- Katz, Dovid: Lithuania; Yiddish
- Kershenovich Schuster, Paulette: Israel; language and identity among Syrian Jews in Mexico City
- Kiwitt, Marc: Germany / France; Judeo-French
- Koral, Miriam: United States; Yiddish language and literature
- Krivoruchko, Julia: United Kingdom; language contact, language obsolescence, loanwords, historical lexicology and lexicography, lexical semantics, etymology, Judeo-Greek, Modern Greek dialectology
- Krogh, Steffen: Denmark; Eastern European Yiddish (origin, modern syntax), comparative Germanic linguistics (especially Old Saxon)
L
- Lawson, Edwin D.: United States; onomastics, Jewish onomastics
- Levon, Erez: United States; American Jewish English, Modern Hebrew
- Lowenstein, Steven M.: United States; Yiddish, especially Yiddish in Germany, Western Yiddish, transition from Yiddish to German in German Jewry, Yiddish and Ashkenazic origins
M
- Maman, Aharon: Israel; Medieval Hebrew (esp. Karaite), Hebrew linguistic literature, Cairo Genizah, Judeo-Magrebian traditions and languages
- Mayer Modena, Maria L.: Italy; Judeo-Italian, Jewish languages, Hebrew
- Miller, Elaine R.: United States; language contact, code switching (Spanish/Hebrew, medieval), Judeo-Spanish
- Minervini, Laura: Italy; Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Italian
- Mitchell, Bruce J.: United States / United Kingdom; Yiddish linguistics, Haredi Yiddish, history of Yiddish, Yiddish studies, Judeo-Spanish language and literature, history of Judeo-Spanish
- Mutzafi, Hezy: Israel; Neo-Aramaic
- Myhill, John: Israel; Jewish sociolinguistics, Biblical Hebrew (functional syntax, semantics), Modern Hebrew
P
- Pirnazar, Nahid: United States; Iranian studies, Judeo-Persian
- Plotkin, Vulf: Israel; Yiddish, Germanic languages, general phonology
- Prager, Leonard: Israel; Yiddish, Jewish English, Modern Hebrew
- Prince, Ellen F.: United States; discourse functions of syntax and related phenomena, language contact, code-switching and dialect shift, Yiddish
Q
R
- Reershemius, Gertrud: United Kingdom; Yiddish
- Reshef, Yael: Israel; Modern Hebrew, Jewish languages
- Rosenhouse, Judith: Israel; Arabic dialects, Modern Hebrew, syntax, phonology/phonetics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, Semitic languages, child language acquisition, hearing impaired individual's problems (speech and hearing), computerized linguistics, translation, applied linguistics
S
- Saba Kirchner, Jesse: United States; Yiddish phonology and etymology
- Sabar, Yona: United States; Jewish Aramaic language, literature and folklore, Hebrew
- Sabih, Joshua: Denmark; Hamito-Semitic linguistics, applied linguistics, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Berber, Judaeo-Spanish, Middle Arabic, Samaritain studies, Jewish studies, Islamology, Jewish-Islamic relations, modern Quranic studies, religious polemical literature
- Saénz-Badillos, Angel: Spain; Sephardic culture (Sephardic Hebrew), history of the Hebrew language, medieval Hebrew poetry and philology in Spain
- Sasaki, Tsuguya / Sadan, Tsvi: Israel; Modern Hebrew linguistics, Hebrew-Yiddish contact linguistics, Jewish linguistics
- Sayers, William: United States; Judeo-French, Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Italian
- Schwarzwald, Ora: Israel; Modern Hebrew (especially morphology), Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), language teaching, children's literature
- Shaked, Shaul: Israel; Judeo-Persian, Judeo-Arabic
- Shalem, Vitaly: Israel; Juhuri (Judeo-Tat), Jewish languages, Iranian languages, bilingual interference, linguistic change, dialectology, sociolinguistics, language death
- Sharon, Miriam: Israel; Jewish languages, general linguistics, linguistic theory, syntax, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology, historical linguistics, Judeo-Portuguese, Judeo-Romance languages, Romance languages, Hebrew, Modern Hebrew
- Sheynin, Hayim: United States; general and comparative linguistics, classical philology, Slavic philology, Semitic philology, medieval Hebrew poetry, Genizah studies, manuscripts and paleography, Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Latin epigraphics, Jewish languages with special attention to Judeo-Romance languages (in particular Ladino texts from 16th to 19th centuries), Judeo-Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Greek, Indo-European languages, Semitic languages, translations from the most Indo-European and Semitic languages, Jewish studies, Sephardic studies, bibliography and booklore
- Spolsky, Bernard: Israel; language policy, educational linguistics, language testing, applied linguistics, English, Hebrew, languages of Israel
- Stillman, Norman (Noam) A.: United States; history and culture of Jews in the Islamic world, Islamic history and culture, Judeo-Arabic (medieval and modern), Maghrebi dialectology, Jewish languages, Islamic languages
- Strolovitch, Devon L.: United States; Judeo-Portuguese, Judeo-Spanish, orthographics of Hebraic writing systems, historiography of Hebrew
- Sznol, Shifra: Israel; Hellenistic Jewish sources, Rabbinic Greek, Medieval Jewish sources, Judeo-Greek
T
- Taube, Moshe: Israel; old Church Slavonic and Old Russian language and literature, translations from the Hebrew in ancient Russia and in the Great duchy of Lithuania, influence of Slavic languages on Yiddish grammar, esp. syntax, the beginnings of modern Eastern Yiddish, contemporary Yiddish in Jerusalem
- Tirosh-Becker, Ofra: Israel; North African Neo Judeo-Arabic (dialects, Bible translations), Medieval Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Arabic translations of Rabbinic literature (medieval, modern), Rabbinic Hebrew embedded in Karaite writings (written in Hebrew or in Judeo-Arabic)
U
V
- Verschik, Anna: Estonia; Estonian Yiddish and its contacts, Baltic Jewish studies, Jewish Russian
W
- Weiss, Raysh: United States: sociolinguistics, philosophy of language, etymology, language revival, Yiddish orthographies, Yiddish song translations, Yiddish film, Western Yiddish, Judeo-German, Yiddish folklore, Yiddish/Hebrew modernist writers, Hebrew (ancient and contemporary)
- Wexler, Paul: Israel; historical linguistics, bilingualism, Jewish languages (including Modern Hebrew), Slavic linguistics, Creole linguistics, Romani (Gypsy)
Z
- Zacharia, Scaria: India; Jewish Malayalam, Malayalam
- Zaun, Stefanie: Germany; Judeo-French
- Zuckermann, Ghil`ad: Australia; language, culture and identity, language contact, historical linguistics, contact lexicology, linguistic genetics, hybridity and evolution, Israeli language, society and religion, language revival (e.g. Hebrew) and survival (e.g. Yiddish), linguistic borrowing, language planning, language academies, lexical engineering, purism, language revitalization (Maori, Aboriginal languages), sociolinguistics, Jewish civilization, semantics, morphology, lexicography (dictionary making and evaluating), pidgins and creoles, multiple causation, camouflage, relexification, etymythology (folk-etymology), socio-philology, theo-linguistics, deifying Zionism and defying religion through ideoglogically-manipulative secularization of Hebrew within Israeli, applied linguistics: applied lexicology, psychometrics, mnemotechnics, English as the world's language, teaching a second language through songs, poetics, poetry (e.g. Yehuda Amichai), constrained literature (e.g. palindromic stories, bilingual homophonous poems), logology, Israeli songs, film, politics and academia, Israel and the Middle East, globalization, internationalization
By Country
Australia
- Zuckermann, Ghil`ad: Australia; language, culture and identity, language contact, historical linguistics, contact lexicology, linguistic genetics, hybridity and evolution, Israeli language, society and religion, language revival (e.g. Hebrew) and survival (e.g. Yiddish), linguistic borrowing, language planning, language academies, lexical engineering, purism, language revitalization (Maori, Aboriginal languages), sociolinguistics, Jewish civilization, semantics, morphology, lexicography (dictionary making and evaluating), pidgins and creoles, multiple causation, camouflage, relexification, etymythology (folk-etymology), socio-philology, theo-linguistics, deifying Zionism and defying religion through ideoglogically-manipulative secularization of Hebrew within Israeli, applied linguistics: applied lexicology, psychometrics, mnemotechnics, English as the world's language, teaching a second language through songs, poetics, poetry (e.g. Yehuda Amichai), constrained literature (e.g. palindromic stories, bilingual homophonous poems), logology, Israeli songs, film, politics and academia, Israel and the Middle East, globalization, internationalization
Brazil
Denmark
- Krogh, Steffen: Denmark; Eastern European Yiddish (origin, modern syntax), comparative Germanic linguistics (especially Old Saxon)
- Sabih, Joshua: Denmark; Hamito-Semitic linguistics, applied linguistics, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Berber, Judaeo-Spanish, Middle Arabic, Samaritain studies, Jewish studies, Islamology, Jewish-Islamic relations, modern Quranic studies, religious polemical literature
Estonia
- Verschik, Anna: Estonia; Estonian Yiddish and its contacts, Baltic Jewish studies, Jewish Russian
France
- Baumgarten, Jean: France; linguistics of Jewish languages, history of the Yiddish language, Old Yiddish literature
- Bornes-Varol, Marie-Christine: France; Judeo-Spanish, Jews of the Ottoman Empire, contact languages, Judeo-Spanish archive, database on proverbs of medieval Iberia and Judeo-Spanish diaspora
- Kiwitt, Marc: Germany / France; Judeo-French
Germany
- Arnold, Rafael: Germany; Ladino translations, Judeo-Spanish, languages of the Sephardim in Italy (16th/17th century), language contact
- Fleischer, Jürg D.: Germany; Yiddish (especially Western Yiddish), Judeo-German, dialectology, language contact and historical linguistics of Yiddish
- Halévy, Michael S.: Germany; general and applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, Judeo-Romance languages, Judezmo, Marrano-Diaspora
- Kiwitt, Marc: Germany / France; Judeo-French
- Zaun, Stefanie: Germany; Judeo-French
India
Israel
- Ashur, Amir: Israel; Judeo-Arabic, Cairo Geniza
- Bar-Asher, Moshe: Israel; Hebrew (Biblical Hebrew, Qumran Hebrew, Modern Hebrew, and especially Mishnaic Hebrew), Aramaic (Targumim and Palestinian Aramaic in particular), oral linguistic traditions of North African Jews in Hebrew and in Arabic and their customs, Sharh (Jewish Arabic translations of the Bible in the Maghreb), oral linguistic traditions and customs of Jews in France
- Bunis, David M.: Israel; Judezmo studies, Yiddish studies, comparative Jewish linguistics
- Gindin, Thamar: Israel; Judeo-Persian, Judeo-Yazdi
- Grossman, David: Israel; Hebrew and Yiddish language, linguistics and computing, Hebrew/L2 bilingualism
- Held, Michal: Israel; Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) language, literature, culture and identity
- Kershenovich Schuster, Paulette: Israel; language and identity among Syrian Jews in Mexico City
- Maman, Aharon: Israel; Medieval Hebrew (esp. Karaite), Hebrew linguistic literature, Cairo Genizah, Judeo-Magrebian traditions and languages
- Mutzafi, Hezy: Israel; Neo-Aramaic
- Myhill, John: Israel; Jewish sociolinguistics, Biblical Hebrew (functional syntax, semantics), Modern Hebrew
- Plotkin, Vulf: Israel; Yiddish, Germanic languages, general phonology
- Prager, Leonard: Israel; Yiddish, Jewish English, Modern Hebrew
- Quintana, Aldina: Israel; Judezmo, Ladino and Hakitia, Ibero-Romance languages
- Reshef, Yael: Israel; Modern Hebrew, Jewish languages
- Rosenhouse, Judith: Israel; Arabic dialects, Modern Hebrew, syntax, phonology/phonetics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, Semitic languages, child language acquisition, hearing impaired individual's problems (speech and hearing), computerized linguistics, translation, applied linguistics
- Sasaki, Tsuguya / Sadan, Tsvi: Israel; Modern Hebrew linguistics, Hebrew-Yiddish contact linguistics, Jewish linguistics
- Schwarzwald, Ora: Israel; Modern Hebrew (especially morphology), Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), language teaching, children's literature
- Shaked, Shaul: Israel; Judeo-Persian, Judeo-Arabic
- Shalem, Vitaly: Israel; Juhuri (Judeo-Tat), Jewish languages, Iranian languages, bilingual interference, linguistic change, dialectology, sociolinguistics, language death
- Sharon, Miriam: Israel; Jewish languages, general linguistics, linguistic theory, syntax, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology, historical linguistics, Judeo-Portuguese, Judeo-Romance languages, Romance languages, Hebrew, Modern Hebrew
- Spolsky, Bernard: Israel; language policy, educational linguistics, language testing, applied linguistics, English, Hebrew, languages of Israel
- Sznol, Shifra: Israel; Hellenistic Jewish sources, Rabbinic Greek, Medieval Jewish sources, Judeo-Greek
- Taube, Moshe: Israel; old Church Slavonic and Old Russian language and literature, translations from the Hebrew in ancient Russia and in the Great duchy of Lithuania, influence of Slavic languages on Yiddish grammar, esp. syntax, the beginnings of modern Eastern Yiddish, contemporary Yiddish in Jerusalem
- Tirosh-Becker, Ofra: Israel; North African Neo Judeo-Arabic (dialects, Bible translations), Medieval Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Arabic translations of Rabbinic literature (medieval, modern), Rabbinic Hebrew embedded in Karaite writings (written in Hebrew or in Judeo-Arabic)
- Wexler, Paul: Israel; historical linguistics, bilingualism, Jewish languages (including Modern Hebrew), Slavic linguistics, Creole linguistics, Romani (Gypsy)
Italy
Lithuania
Netherlands
- Berger, Shlomo: Netherlands; Yiddish (especially pre-modern: up to 1800)
- den Besten, Hans: Netherlands; Yiddish syntax, historical phonology of West Yiddish, Yiddish component of Dutch and German crypotolects and of Post-Yiddish Dutch and German
Spain
United Kingdom
- Krivoruchko, Julia: United Kingdom; language contact, language obsolescence, loanwords, historical lexicology and lexicography, lexical semantics, etymology, Judeo-Greek, Modern Greek dialectology
- Reershemius, Gertrud: United Kingdom; Yiddish
- Mitchell, Bruce J.: United States / United Kingdom; Yiddish linguistics, Haredi Yiddish, history of Yiddish, Yiddish studies, Judeo-Spanish language and literature, history of Judeo-Spanish
United States
- Aronson, Howard I.: United States; structure of Yiddish, Yiddish and Slavic
- Ascher, Gloria J.: United States; teaching and learning Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Spanish folklore, music, tradition, Judeo-Spanish literature
- bar-Lev, Zev: United States; Hebrew teaching, Hebrew morphophonology, Hebrew lexical semantics and lexicon
- Benor, Sarah Bunin: United States; sociolinguistics, American Jewish English, Yiddish, Ladino / Judezmo / Judeo-Spanish, Jewish languages / comparative Jewish linguistics, language contact
- Bernstein, Cynthia: United States; Language variation: regional and ethnic varieties of the Southern United States
- Bolozky, Shmuel: United States; phonology, morphology, Hebrew phonology and morphology, foreign language teaching methodology
- Connerty, Mary C.: United States; Judeo-Greek, Jewish languages
- De Benedetti, Jana L.: United States; Judeo-Italian, Judeo-Roman, teaching Hebrew as a foreign language, multimedia Hebrew learning
- Estraikh, Gennady: United States; Yiddish (Eastern)
- Fishman, Joshua A.: United States; Yiddish (19th, 20th and 21st centuries in Orthodox and in secular circles), Judezmo and Israeli Hebrew in religious and secular circles, mutual influences between English and Yiddish (including but not limited to Yeshivish/Yinglish), the great pioneers of Jewish interlinguistics in Eastern, Central and Western Europe (19th and 20th centuries), sociolinguistic theory regarding the rise and fall of Jewish languages
- Fudeman, Kirsten: United States; Hebraico-French texts and glosses
- Glasser, Paul: United States; Yiddish, Eastern Europe
- Glinert, Lewis: United States; sociology and linguistics of Hebrew and Yiddish
- Hary, Benjamin: United States; Judeo-Arabic (general, linguistics, history, orthography, Egyptian), Hebrew (history, Spoken Israeli), Jewish English, comparative linguistics of Jewish languages, Hebrew and Aramaic components in Jewish languages, translations of sacred texts in Jewish languages, sociolinguistics, language contact, language change, language variation
- Hoberman, Robert D.: United States; Modern Aramaic, Semitics, Premodern Aramaic and Hebrew
- Isaacs, Miriam: United States; Yiddish language and culture, language and society, languages of Haredim
- Jerchower, Seth: United States; general linguistics, linguistic theory, syntax, phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology, historical linguistics, corpus processing, character set development, Judeo-Italian, Judeo-Greek, Judeo-Romance languages, Judeo-X languages, Romance languages, Latin, Indo-European languages, Semitic languages, Genizah studies
- Jochnowitz, George: United States; Judeo-Italian, Judeo-Provençal, comparative Jewish linguistics
- Kahan Newman, Zelda: United States; "Jewish" sound of Ashkenazic speech, Yiddish grammar, Yiddish literature, interface of Yiddish grammar and Hebrew grammar, interface of Yiddish literature and Hebrew literature, traditional Ashkenaz and women's literature, Ashkenazic culture, philosophy of language
- Koral, Miriam: United States; Yiddish language and literature
- Lawson, Edwin D.: United States; onomastics, Jewish onomastics
- Levon, Erez: United States; American Jewish English, Modern Hebrew
- Lowenstein, Steven M.: United States; Yiddish, especially Yiddish in Germany, Western Yiddish, transition from Yiddish to German in German Jewry, Yiddish and Ashkenazic origins
- Miller, Elaine R.: United States; language contact, code switching (Spanish/Hebrew, medieval), Judeo-Spanish
- Mitchell, Bruce J.: United States / United Kingdom; Yiddish linguistics, Haredi Yiddish, history of Yiddish, Yiddish studies, Judeo-Spanish language and literature, history of Judeo-Spanish
- Pirnazar, Nahid: United States; Iranian studies, Judeo-Persian
- Prince, Ellen F.: United States; discourse functions of syntax and related phenomena, language contact, code-switching and dialect shift, Yiddish
- Saba Kirchner, Jesse: United States; Yiddish phonology and etymology
- Sabar, Yona: United States; Jewish Aramaic language, literature and folklore, Hebrew
- Sayers, William: United States; Judeo-French, Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Italian
- Sheynin, Hayim: United States; general and comparative linguistics, classical philology, Slavic philology, Semitic philology, medieval Hebrew poetry, Genizah studies, manuscripts and paleography, Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Latin epigraphics, Jewish languages with special attention to Judeo-Romance languages (in particular Ladino texts from 16th to 19th centuries), Judeo-Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Greek, Indo-European languages, Semitic languages, translations from the most Indo-European and Semitic languages, Jewish studies, Sephardic studies, bibliography and booklore
- Stillman, Norman (Noam) A.: United States; history and culture of Jews in the Islamic world, Islamic history and culture, Judeo-Arabic (medieval and modern), Maghrebi dialectology, Jewish languages, Islamic languages
- Strolovitch, Devon L.: United States; Judeo-Portuguese, Judeo-Spanish, orthographics of Hebraic writing systems, historiography of Hebrew
- Ussishkin, Adam: United States; Modern Hebrew
- Weiss, Raysh: United States: sociolinguistics, philosophy of language, etymology, language revival, Yiddish orthographies, Yiddish song translations, Yiddish film, Western Yiddish, Judeo-German, Yiddish folklore, Yiddish/Hebrew modernist writers, Hebrew (ancient and contemporary)