ALDINA QUINTANA-RODRÍGUEZ

Department of Spanish and Latino-American Studies

Faculty of Humanities

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

msquin@mscc.huji.ac.il 

 

EDUCATION

 

2005

Ph. D.: Geografía Lingüística del Judeoespañol en los Balcanes y en Turquía (grade: “Excellent”), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dissertation advisors: Prof. Cyril Aslanoff and Prof. David M. Bunis.

1991

MA in Spanish Philology and German Philology (grade: “Excellent”), the Free University of Berlin.

1985-91

Studies of Spanish Philology, German Philology and Political Sciences at the Free University of Berlin.

1980-84

Studies of Journalism at the Complutense University, Madrid.

 

 

 

 

   

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

ACADEMIC

 

2004-2005

Post-Doctorate Fellow, Hispania Judaica Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2004-2005

Participant in the research project The Judeo-Spanish proverbs of Morocco, directed by Prof. Tamar Alexander and Prof. Yaakov Bentolila, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

2005

Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Literature of the Jewish People.  Bar-Ilan University

2001-2004

Instructor in the Department of Spanish and Latino-American Studies, and the Center for the Study of Jewish Languages and Literatures, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1998-2001

Teaching Assistant in the Department of Spanish and Latino-American Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1997-2001

Teaching Assistant in the Department of Hebrew Language, the Center for the Study of Jewish Languages and Literatures, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1997-1999

Research Assistant in the project A Lexicon of Turkish Elements in Modern Ottoman Judezmo, directed by Prof. David Bunis, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1997

Ph.D. candidate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1995-96

Teacher of the courses “History of the Spanish Language” and 
”Introduction to Spanish Linguistics” in the Department of Romance Languages, the Free University of Berlin.

1992-94

Visiting Graduate Student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1992

Teacher of the seminar “1992: The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain” in the Department of Romance Languages, the Free University of Berlin.

1989-92

Research Assistant in the Faculty of Romance Languages, the Free University of Berlin.

 

EXTRA-ACADEMIC

 

1998-99

Teacher of Spanish (Council of the Sephardic and Oriental 
Communities of Jerusalem).

1997-98

Teacher of Spanish (Ulpan Tikvatenu, Jerusalem).

1988-89

Teacher of Spanish at the Advent Education Centre of Berlin.

 

JOURNALISM

 

1992

Assistant producer, editorial assistant, translator, and 

 interpreter at the Spanish Television (TVE-Berlin).

1990

Collaboration with the Television de Galicia channel in a program about the German Unification.

 

Collaboration with newspapers of Spain.

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

 

Member of the World Congress of Jewish Studies.

Member of the Israeli Association for the Study of Language and Society.

Member of the Association Sefarad (Jerusalem).

Fellow of the Ben-Zvi Institute of Jerusalem (2002-03).

Fellow of the Golda Meir Foundation, Israel (1997-99).

 

SCHOLARSHIPS AND FINANCIAL AWARDS

 

2004-2005

Scholarship from the Hispania Judaica Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2004

Grant from the Perlov Foundation.

2003

Grant from the Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Great Britain.

2002-03

Scholarship from the Toni and Oded Eliachar Foundation, Jerusalem.

2002

Grant from Misgav Yerushalayim, the Hebrew Univesity of Jerusalem.

2002

Grant from the National Authority for Ladino Culture, Jerusalem, Israel.

2002

Grant from the Diputación de Zaragoza, Spain.

2001

Grant from the Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Great Britain.

2000

Grant from the National Authority for Ladino Culture, Jerusalem, Israel.

2000

Grant from the Conselleria de Cultura, Educació y Ciència, Generalitat Valenciana, Spain.

1999-2000

Grant from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture.

1997-99

Scholarship from the Golda Meir Foundation, Israel.

1995

Scholarship of the Obra Cultural de Iber-Caja, Zaragoza, Spain.

1993-95

Scholarship of the Commission for the Promotion of Young Women.

 

Researcher, The Free University of Berlin, Germany.

1992-93

Scholarship of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel.

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

 

With I.-S. Révah (posthumous), “A Sephardic Siddur with Ritual Instructions in Aragonese Romance. Ms. Oxford, Bodleian Library 1133 (Opp. Add. 8° 18).” Hispania Judaica Bulletin, 4 (Jerusalem), 2004, pp. 138-151.

“El sustrato y el adstrato portugués en judeoespañol.” Judenspanish VIII (= Neue Romania 31), (Berlin), 2004, pp. 167-192.

“Sobre la transmisión y el formulismo en el Me´am Lo´ez de Yacob Julí,” H. Pomeroy and M. Alpert, eds., Proceedings of the Twelfth British Conference on Judeo-Spanish Studies, 24-26 June, 2001. Sephardic Language, Literature and History. Leiden e.a., Brill, 2004, pp. 69-80.

“Perspectiva histórica de la lengua ladino” (English: “Ladino in historical perspective”). Joshua Holo, ed., Los judíos españoles según las fuentes hebreas. Valencia, Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana, 2002, pp. 75-93 &169-175.

Review of: Haralambos Symeonidis, Das Judenspasnische von Thessaloniki (Bern 2002), Aki Yerushalayim, 70, 2002, pp. 69-70.

“Geografía lingüística del judeoespañol de acuerdo con el léxico.” Revista de Filología Española, LXXXII, 2002, pp. 105-138.

“Translation into Judezmo as a Means of Propagating Zionist Ideology Among the Sephardim.” W. Zeev Harvey e.a., eds., Zion and the Zionism among Sephardim and Oriental Jews. Proceedings of Misgav Yerushalayim´s Fifth International Congress, 1997. Jerusalem, Misgav Yerushalayim 2002, pp. 507-527 [in Hebrew]

Review of: Michael Studemund-Halévy, Biographisches Lexikon der Hamburger Sefarden (Hamburg 2001). Aki Yerushalayim, 67, 2001, pp. 64-66.

“Concomitancias lingüísticas entre el ladino (judeo-español) y el aragonés.” Archivo de Filología Aragonesa, 57-58 (Saragossa), 2001, pp. 163-192.

 

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS (ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION)

 

BOOKS

 

Geografía Lingüística del Judeoespañol. Ph.D. dissertation, submitted to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Bern e.a., Peter Lang (approx. pp. 620).

 

ARTICLES

 

“Discourse structure in the Me‘am Lo‘ez of Ya‘akov Khuli,” Pe‘amim (Jerusalém) [in Hebrew].

“La investigación y la enseñanza del judeoespañol en el contexto multicultural del mundo académico,” Ladinar 4 (Tel Aviv).

“La influencia del romance aragonés sobre el judeo-español.” M.A. Motis Dolader, ed., Hebraica Aragonalia. El legado judío en Aragón, Saragossa, Diputación Provincial.

“Geografía lingüística del judeoespañol: una primera aproximación,” H. Pomeroy and Fiona Maguire, coords., Proceedings of the 13th British Conference on Judeo-Spanish Studies, 7-9 Sept. 2003. Leiden e.a., Brill.

“Elementos iberorromances no castellanos en Judeoespañol.” D. Bunis, Y. Bentolila & E. Hazan, eds., Proceedings of the 6th International Congress of Misgav Yerushalayim. Jerusalem, 20-24.07.2000.

 

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

 

The formation of Judeo-Spanish as reflected in Spanish testimony appearing in the Rabbinical Responsa of the 16th century.

I.-S. Révah, Moisés Almosnino y El regimiento de la vida (1568), Aldina Quintana (ed.).