When Dr. Ilana Sasson of Teaneck was growing up in Israel, the child of Iraqi immigrants, she was embarrassed by the Arabic her parents would speak at home. “I wanted people to speak Hebrew,” she said ...

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The many endangered dialects of Judeo-Arabic have been documented to varying extents, from Egypt to Morocco, from Syria to Yemen. And some young people are keeping the music alive. I can’t stop ...

When Jews long ago ordered their coffee in Baghdad, gossiped in Derbent or traded recipes in Kurdistan, they did so in Judeo-Arabic, Juhuri and Neo-Aramaic— languages that are all but lost, and with ...

Asir Salaam Shajaa, the third generation in his family to care for the tomb, dusts off the hand-sewn green cloth used to cover Nahum's Tomb (photo: al Qaisi). Between 1948 and 1951, the vast majority ...

The fall of Bashar Assad’s regime on Sunday, after years of civil war and opposition unrest, has brought a new focus on Syria’s cultural heritage. Among the many stories resurfacing in the wake of ...

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New York University today announced that it is offering five full-time, three-year graduate fellowships in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic studies. The recipients will begin their programs at the university ...