Yona Sabar

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Yona Sabar, (1938- ), is an Iraqi Jewish scholar, linguist and researcher. He was born in the town of Zakho in Iraqi Kurdistan. His family moved to Israel in 1951. He received his B.A. in Hebrew and Arabic from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1963 and Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Literature from Yale University in 1970. He is currently professor of Hebrew at UCLA. He has published more than 90 research articles about Jewish Neo-Aramaic and Folklore of the Kurdish Jews.

[edit] Books

• The Folk literature of the Kurdistani Jews: and 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, 337 pp., 2002. ISBN 3-447-04557-4

[edit] External links

• Yona Sabar's web site
• Hollywood Calling, By Ariel Sabar.
• Prof. Sabar's opinion about the claim of Barzani being Jewish in JTO.