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Abramac, Gabi: Croatia; sociolinguistics of Jewish languages, language and identity, cognition and multilingualism, applied linguistics, Judeo-Spanish, Yiddish, Biblical Hebrew, Modern Hebrew, Aramaic
Aptroot, Marion: Germany; Yiddish, West Yiddish
Armistead, Samuel G.: United States; Judeo-Spanish, Sephardic folk literature
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
Aslanov, Cyril: Israel; historical linguistics, comparative linguistics, language contact, historical sociolinguistics, Jewish history, translation studies
Attig, Remy: Canada; Ladino folktales, Ladino preservation, medieval origins of Ladino folk narratives, comparative literature of the Convivencia (Jewish, Christian and Muslim), mystical references in Ladino folk literature
Avineri, Netta: United States; Yiddish, discourse/conversation analysis, linguistic anthropology, language socialization, language ideologies, heritage languages, language endangerment, language revitalization, intergenerational communication, interactions in educational settings
Avirbach, Barak: Israel; Medieval Hebrew, Modern Hebrew (semantics, morphology, syntax and pragmatics), Judeo-Arabic, Modern Arabic literature, eloquent silence

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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
Barriere, Isabelle: United States; acquisition of different Languages (with a focus on the lexicon, morphosyntax and emergent literacy) in different demographic and linguistic contexts, acquisition of Yiddish (by children), bilingual development, language contact phenomena that impact on language development, development of screening, assessment and intervention tool for Yiddish-speaking children, linguistic description of Hasidic varieties of Yiddish, reading and writing Yiddish
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
Beider, Alexander: France; Jewish onomastics, history of Yiddish
Benaim, Annette: United Kingdom; Judeo-Spanish, Ladino, Sephardim, Responsa literature, Rabbinic literature, Jewish historiography, Hispanic philology, Spanish studies, linguistics, Judaic studies, Ottoman Jewish history
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
Bos, Gerrit: Germany; medieval medical Hebrew, medieval Romance in Hebrew medical texts
Bradley, Travis G.: United States; Judeo-Spanish, phonological theory, phonetic and phonological variation in Ibero-Romance and other languages, historical Romance phonology, second language acquisition and technology-enhanced language learning
Bunis, David M.: Israel; Judezmo studies, Yiddish studies, comparative Jewish linguistics

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Chetrit, Joseph: Israel; Jewish languages, Judeo-Arabic dialects in North Africa, Judeo-Berber, pragmatics, sociopragmatics, Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic poetry in North Africa, Haskalah in North Africa, Jewish music in Morocco
Cohen, Gerald: United States: etymology, with occasional treatments of items of Jewish interest
Connerty, Mary C.: United States; Judeo-Greek, Jewish languages
Corré, Alan D.: United States; Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Spanish

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De Benedetti, Jana L.: United States; Judeo-Italian, Judeo-Roman, teaching Hebrew as a foreign language, multimedia Hebrew learning
Dekel, Nurit: Netherlands; spoken Israeli Hebrew, morphology, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, semantics, syntax
Duchowny, Alexia T.: Brazil; Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Portuguese, Ibero-Romance languages, historical linguistics

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Estraikh, Gennady: United States; Yiddish (Eastern)

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Fassberg, Steven: Israel; Jewish Neo-Aramaic, Northwest Semitic, Comparative Semitics
Fenton, Paul B.: France; Jewish culture and civilisation within the Muslim context, Jewish and Islamic philosophy and mysticism, Judeo-Arabic (Classical and Maghrebi), Yiddish
Feuer, Avital: United States; Modern Hebrew pedagogy, heritage and second language acquisition, identity and language, language learning motivation, language acquisition in informal educational settings, qualitative research methods
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

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Gallego, Maria Angeles: Spain; Medieval Judeo-Arabic, Karaites, sociolinguistics
Gamliel, Ophira: Israel; Indology, Jewish Malayalam, Malayalam literature and language, Kerala studies, Sanskrit literature and language, folklore
Geller, Ewa: Poland; Polish-Yiddish contact linguistics, German-Yiddish-Polish contrastive grammar, origins of Eastern Yiddish, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, German historical linguistics, Polish lexicography
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
Gonen, Einat: Israel; Modern Hebrew, research methodology of spoken languages, Hebrew phonology and morphology, second language acquisition, language policy
Gonen, Illan: United Kingdom: Jewish North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic, Israeli Hebrew, Semitic phonology, morphophonology and morphology, synchronic versus historical linguistics

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Halévy, Michael S.: Germany; general and applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, Judeo-Romance languages, Judezmo, Marrano-Diaspora
Halevy-Nemirovsky, Rivka: Israel; syntax, semantics, pragmatics of Modern Hebrew with cross-language comparisons, phraseology
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
Held, Michal: Israel; Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) language, literature, culture and identity
Henkin-Roitfarb, Roni: Israel; Arabic dialectology, Bedouin oral narrative and poetry, Hebrew-Arabic contact, acquisition of Hebrew
Hill, Brad Sabin: United States; languages written or printed in Hebrew characters, bibliography and printing history of Jewish languages
Hoberman, Robert D.: United States; Modern Aramaic, Semitics, Premodern Aramaic and Hebrew

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Ilan, Nahem: Israel; exclusive characters of the homiletic and exegetic literature in the Judeo-Arabic culture, literal genres of the Judeo-Arabic literature and its internal (Jewish) and external (Muslim) context, characters of the adaptation of the written literature in Judeo-Arabic which was based on oral sermons, Sufi-Jewish Literature, history of the Jews in Egypt and Sudan at the modern era, issues of the history of Jewish books among the Sephardic and Eastern Jews, intellectual history of Sephardic and Eastern Jew
Isaacs, Miriam: United States; Yiddish language and culture, language and society, languages of Haredim

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Jastrow, Otto: Estonia; Arabic dialects (including Jewish Arabic dialects), Neo-Aramaic
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

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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
Kirschen, Bryan: United States; Judeo-Spanish preservation and revitalization, languages in contact and language shift, comparative studies between Haquetía and Djudezmo
Kiwitt, Marc: Germany; Old French texts written in Hebrew script, historical lexicography, language contact between Romance and Semitic languages
Koral, Miriam: United States; Yiddish language and literature
Kozyra, Malgorzata: Germany / Poland; Modern Yiddish, semantics, grammaticalization, aspectology, corpus linguistics
Krivoruchko, Julia G.: 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)

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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

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Maman, Aharon: Israel; Medieval Hebrew (esp. Karaite), Hebrew linguistic literature, Cairo Genizah, Judeo-Magrebian traditions and languages
Matras, Yaron: United Kingdom; language contact, typology, in-group and secret languages (e.g. Lekoudesch or Jewish cattle-traders jargon, Jenisch and Rotwelsch, Anglo-Romani)
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
Muchnik, Malka: Israel; Modern Hebrew, sociolinguistics, gender and language, bilingualism, foreign influences, word-formation, stylistics
Mutzafi, Hezy: Israel; Neo-Aramaic
Myhill, John: Israel; Jewish sociolinguistics, Biblical Hebrew (functional syntax, semantics), Modern Hebrew

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Niborski, Yitskhok: France; Yiddish, Yiddish lexicography, Hebrew and Aramaic element in Yiddish

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Nydorf, Charles: United States; linguistic geography of Yiddish, history of Yiddish

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Pesic, Dimitrije: Serbia; Judeo-Spanish
Piela, Marek: Poland; Modern Hebrew grammar, grammar of modern literary texts in Hebrew, Bible translations
Pirnazar, Nahid: United States; Iranian studies, Judeo-Persian
Piser, Celine: United States; Judeo-Spanish, 20th century and contemporary Francophone Sephardic literature, Sephardic and Mizrahi immigration in France

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Quintana, Aldina: Israel; Judezmo, Ladino and Hakitia, Ibero-Romance languages

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Reershemius, Gertrud: United Kingdom; Yiddish
Reshef, Yael: Israel; Modern Hebrew, Jewish languages
Riemer, Nathanael: Germany; Yiddish before 1700, Hebrew and Yiddish moral literature, Christian scholars and their study of Yiddish
Romero, Rey: United States; Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Spanish dialectology, Judeo-Spanish attrition, Judeo-Romance languages, Spanish in contact with non-Romance 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
Rothstein, Robert A.: United States; Yiddish, Slavic-Yiddish connections in language and folklore
Rubin, Aaron: United States; Hebrew, Semitic languages, Judeo-Italian

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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
Sadan, Tsvi (Sasaki, Tsuguya): Israel; Modern Hebrew, Modern Yiddish, Esperanto, morphology, lexicology, lexicography, onomastics, contact linguistics, sociolinguistics
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
Shandler, Jeffrey: United States; Yiddish, especially post-World War II, second language learning, translation, postvernacular language
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
Sherizen, Moshe: Israel; Modern Yiddish linguistics
Sheynin, Hayim: United States; Jewish languages, Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Arabic, Aramaic language and epigraphics, Hebrew language and literature, Hebrew manuscripts and paleography
Spolsky, Bernard: Israel; language policy, educational linguistics, language testing, applied linguistics, English, Hebrew, languages of Israel
Sterk, Aron: United Kingdom; Judeo-Latin, Judeo-Romance linguistics, toponymics, Jewish history in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages
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

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Tal, Abraham: Israel; Hebrew, Aramaic, lexicography
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)
Turniansky, Chava: Israel; Yiddish language and literature (especially in the early modern period), history and culture of Ashkenazi Jews, women in Yiddish literature

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Ussishkin, Adam: United States; Modern Hebrew

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Végh, Roland: Hungary; Modern Israeli Hebrew, language of the Israeli Palestinians (especially the impacts of Modern Israeli Hebrew in their vernacular Arabic), Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian, Israeli culture, Israeli society, Israeli Palestinian community, Jewish communities of different Muslim countries
Verschik, Anna: Estonia; Estonian Yiddish and its contacts, Baltic Jewish studies, Jewish Russian
Vinš, Petr Jan: Switzerland / Czech Republic; Ancient Jewish (inscriptional) Greek, Hebrew, Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish, sociolinguistics and language contact of Jewish Diaspora languages

W

Walters, Joel: Israel; bilingualism, pragmatics, language impairments
Weiser, Kalman: Canada; Yiddish studies, Hebrew, Judezmo, sociology of Jewish languages
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)

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Zacharia, Scaria: India; Jewish Malayalam, Malayalam
Zaun, Stefanie: Germany; Judeo-French
Zewi, Tamar: Israel; Hebrew and Semitic linguistics (especially syntax), Biblical Hebrew and other Hebrew periods, Classical and Medieval Judeo-Arabic, Geez, Akkadian of El-Amarna, Ugaritic, Bible translations into Semitic languages, Saadya Gaon's Bible translation
Zuckermann, Ghil'ad: Australia / China / Israel; language, culture and identity, revival linguistics, 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
Zwink, Julia Charlotte: Germany; medieval French, Provençal and Latin texts in Hebrew transcription, medieval oriental medicine

By Country

Australia

Zuckermann, Ghil'ad: Australia / China / Israel; language, culture and identity, revival linguistics, 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

Duchowny, Alexia T.: Brazil; Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Portuguese, Ibero-Romance languages, historical linguistics

Canada

Attig, Remy: Canada; Ladino folktales, Ladino preservation, medieval origins of Ladino folk narratives, comparative literature of the Convivencia (Jewish, Christian and Muslim), mystical references in Ladino folk literature
Weiser, Kalman: Canada; Yiddish studies, Hebrew, Judezmo, sociology of Jewish languages

China

Zuckermann, Ghil'ad: Australia / China / Israel; 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

Croatia

Abramac, Gabi: Croatia; sociolinguistics of Jewish languages, language and identity, cognition and multilingualism, applied linguistics, Judeo-Spanish, Yiddish, Biblical Hebrew, Modern Hebrew, Aramaic

Czechia

Vinš, Petr Jan: Switzerland / Czechia; Ancient Jewish (inscriptional) Greek, Hebrew, Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish, sociolinguistics and language contact of Jewish Diaspora languages

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

Jastrow, Otto: Estonia; Arabic dialects (including Jewish Arabic dialects), Neo-Aramaic
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
Beider, Alexander: France; Jewish onomastics, history of Yiddish
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
Fenton, Paul B.: France; Jewish culture and civilisation within the Muslim context, Jewish and Islamic philosophy and mysticism, Judeo-Arabic (Classical and Maghrebi), Yiddish
Niborski, Yitskhok: France; Yiddish, Yiddish lexicography, Hebrew and Aramaic element in Yiddish

Germany

Aptroot, Marion: Germany; Yiddish, West Yiddish
Arnold, Rafael: Germany; Ladino translations, Judeo-Spanish, languages of the Sephardim in Italy (16th/17th century), language contact
Bos, Gerrit: Germany; medieval medical Hebrew, medieval Romance in Hebrew medical texts
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; Old French texts written in Hebrew script, historical lexicography, language contact between Romance and Semitic languages
Kozyra, Malgorzata: Germany / Poland; Modern Yiddish, semantics, grammaticalization, aspectology, corpus linguistics
Riemer, Nathanael: Germany; Yiddish before 1700, Hebrew and Yiddish moral literature, Christian scholars and their study of Yiddish
Zaun, Stefanie: Germany; Judeo-French
Zwink, Julia Charlotte: Germany; medieval French, Provençal and Latin texts in Hebrew transcription, medieval oriental medicine

Hungary

Végh, Roland: Hungary; Modern Israeli Hebrew, language of the Israeli Palestinians (especially the impacts of Modern Israeli Hebrew in their vernacular Arabic), Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian, Israeli culture, Israeli society, Israeli Palestinian community, Jewish communities of different Muslim countries

India

Zacharia, Scaria: India; Jewish Malayalam, Malayalam

Israel

Ashur, Amir: Israel; Judeo-Arabic, Cairo Geniza
Aslanov, Cyril: Israel; historical linguistics, comparative linguistics, language contact, historical sociolinguistics, Jewish history, translation studies
Avirbach, Barak: Israel; Medieval Hebrew, Modern Hebrew (semantics, morphology, syntax and pragmatics), Judeo-Arabic, Modern Arabic literature, eloquent silence
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
Chetrit, Joseph: Israel; Jewish languages, Judeo-Arabic dialects in North Africa, Judeo-Berber, pragmatics, sociopragmatics, Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic poetry in North Africa, Haskalah in North Africa, Jewish music in Morocco
Fassberg, Steven: Israel; Jewish Neo-Aramaic, Northwest Semitic, Comparative Semitics
Gamliel, Ophira: Israel; Indology, Jewish Malayalam, Malayalam literature and language, Kerala studies, Sanskrit literature and language, folklore
Gindin, Thamar: Israel; Judeo-Persian, Judeo-Yazdi
Gonen, Einat: Israel; Modern Hebrew, research methodology of spoken languages, Hebrew phonology and morphology, second language acquisition, language policy
Halevy-Nemirovsky, Rivka: Israel; syntax, semantics, pragmatics of Modern Hebrew with cross-language comparisons, phraseology
Held, Michal: Israel; Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) language, literature, culture and identity
Henkin-Roitfarb, Roni: Israel; Arabic dialectology, Bedouin oral narrative and poetry, Hebrew-Arabic contact, acquisition of Hebrew
Ilan, Nahem: Israel; exclusive characters of the homiletic and exegetic literature in the Judeo-Arabic culture, literal genres of the Judeo-Arabic literature and its internal (Jewish) and external (Muslim) context, characters of the adaptation of the written literature in Judeo-Arabic which was based on oral sermons, Sufi-Jewish Literature, history of the Jews in Egypt and Sudan at the modern era, issues of the history of Jewish books among the Sephardic and Eastern Jews, intellectual history of Sephardic and Eastern Jew
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
Muchnik, Malka: Israel; Modern Hebrew, sociolinguistics, gender and language, bilingualism, foreign influences, word-formation, stylistics
Mutzafi, Hezy: Israel; Neo-Aramaic
Myhill, John: Israel; Jewish sociolinguistics, Biblical Hebrew (functional syntax, semantics), 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
Sadan, Tsvi (Sasaki, Tsuguya): Israel; Modern Hebrew, Modern Yiddish, Esperanto, morphology, lexicology, lexicography, onomastics, contact linguistics, sociolinguistics
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
Sherizen, Moshe: Israel; Modern Yiddish linguistics
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
Tal, Abraham: Israel; Hebrew, Aramaic, lexicography
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)
Turniansky, Chava: Israel; Yiddish language and literature (especially in the early modern period), history and culture of Ashkenazi Jews, women in Yiddish literature
Walters, Joel: Israel; bilingualism, pragmatics, language impairments
Wexler, Paul: Israel; historical linguistics, bilingualism, Jewish languages (including Modern Hebrew), Slavic linguistics, Creole linguistics, Romani (Gypsy)
Zewi, Tamar: Israel; Hebrew and Semitic linguistics (especially syntax), Biblical Hebrew and other Hebrew periods, Classical and Medieval Judeo-Arabic, Geez, Akkadian of El-Amarna, Ugaritic, Bible translations into Semitic languages, Saadya Gaon's Bible translation
Zuckermann, Ghil'ad: Australia / China / Israel; 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

Italy

Mayer Modena, Maria L.: Italy; Judeo-Italian, Jewish languages, Hebrew
Minervini, Laura: Italy; Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Italian

Lithuania

Katz, Dovid: Lithuania; Yiddish

Netherlands

Berger, Shlomo: Netherlands; Yiddish (especially pre-modern: up to 1800)
Dekel, Nurit: Netherlands; spoken Israeli Hebrew, morphology, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, semantics, syntax

Poland

Geller, Ewa: Poland; Polish-Yiddish contact linguistics, German-Yiddish-Polish contrastive grammar, origins of Eastern Yiddish, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, German historical linguistics, Polish lexicography
Kozyra, Malgorzata: Germany / Poland; Modern Yiddish, semantics, grammaticalization, aspectology, corpus linguistics
Piela, Marek: Poland; Modern Hebrew grammar, grammar of modern literary texts in Hebrew, Bible translations

Serbia

Pesic, Dimitrije: Serbia; Judeo-Spanish

Spain

Gallego, Maria Angeles: Spain; Medieval Judeo-Arabic, Karaites, sociolinguistics
Saénz-Badillos, Angel: Spain; Sephardic culture (Sephardic Hebrew), history of the Hebrew language, medieval Hebrew poetry and philology in Spain

Switzerland

Vinš, Petr Jan: Switzerland / Czechia: Ancient Jewish (inscriptional) Greek, Hebrew, Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish, sociolinguistics and language contact of Jewish Diaspora languages

United Kingdom

Benaim, Annette: United Kingdom; Judeo-Spanish, Ladino, Sephardim, Responsa literature, Rabbinic literature, Jewish historiography, Hispanic philology, Spanish studies, linguistics, Judaic studies, Ottoman Jewish history
Gonen, Illan: United Kingdom: Jewish North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic, Israeli Hebrew, Semitic phonology, morphophonology and morphology, synchronic versus historical linguistics
Krivoruchko, Julia G.: United Kingdom; language contact, language obsolescence, loanwords, historical lexicology and lexicography, lexical semantics, etymology, Judeo-Greek, Modern Greek dialectology
Matras, Yaron: United Kingdom; language contact, typology, in-group and secret languages (e.g. Lekoudesch or Jewish cattle-traders jargon, Jenisch and Rotwelsch, Anglo-Romani)
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
Sterk, Aron: United Kingdom; Judeo-Latin, Judeo-Romance linguistics, toponymics, Jewish history in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages

United States

Armistead, Samuel G.: United States; Judeo-Spanish, Sephardic folk literature
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
Avineri, Netta: United States; Yiddish, discourse/conversation analysis, linguistic anthropology, language socialization, language ideologies, heritage languages, language endangerment, language revitalization, intergenerational communication, interactions in educational settings
bar-Lev, Zev: United States; Hebrew teaching, Hebrew morphophonology, Hebrew lexical semantics and lexicon
Barriere, Isabelle: United States; acquisition of different Languages (with a focus on the lexicon, morphosyntax and emergent literacy) in different demographic and linguistic contexts, acquisition of Yiddish (by children), bilingual development, language contact phenomena that impact on language development, development of screening, assessment and intervention tool for Yiddish-speaking children, linguistic description of Hasidic varieties of Yiddish, reading and writing Yiddish
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
Bradley, Travis G.: United States; Judeo-Spanish, phonological theory, phonetic and phonological variation in Ibero-Romance and other languages, historical Romance phonology, second language acquisition and technology-enhanced language learning
Cohen, Gerald: United States: etymology, with occasional treatments of items of Jewish interest
Connerty, Mary C.: United States; Judeo-Greek, Jewish languages
Corré, Alan D.: United States; Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Spanish
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)
Feuer, Avital: United States; Modern Hebrew pedagogy, heritage and second language acquisition, identity and language, language learning motivation, language acquisition in informal educational settings, qualitative research methods
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
Hill, Brad Sabin: United States; languages written or printed in Hebrew characters, bibliography and printing history of Jewish languages
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
Kirschen, Bryan: United States; Judeo-Spanish preservation and revitalization, languages in contact and language shift, comparative studies between Haquetía and Djudezmo
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
Nydorf, Charles: United States; linguistic geography of Yiddish, history of Yiddish
Pirnazar, Nahid: United States; Iranian studies, Judeo-Persian
Piser, Celine: United States; Judeo-Spanish, 20th century and contemporary Francophone Sephardic literature, Sephardic and Mizrahi immigration in France
Romero, Rey: United States; Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Spanish dialectology, Judeo-Spanish attrition, Judeo-Romance languages, Spanish in contact with non-Romance languages
Rothstein, Robert A.: United States; Yiddish, Slavic-Yiddish connections in language and folklore
Rubin, Aaron: United States; Hebrew, Semitic languages, Judeo-Italian
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
Shandler, Jeffrey: United States; Yiddish, especially post-World War II, second language learning, translation, postvernacular language
Sheynin, Hayim: United States; Jewish languages, Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Arabic, Aramaic language and epigraphics, Hebrew language and literature, Hebrew manuscripts and paleography
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)