Dr. Ofra Tirosh-Becker

· Chair of the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Languages, The Hebrew University

· Head of the Center for the Study of Jewish Languages and Literatures, The Hebrew University

· Founding co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Jewish Languages, Brill Academic Publishers

· Co-editor, Massorot: Studies in Language Traditions and Jewish Languages

· Editor (Languages and Linguistics), Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (Chief editor: N. A. Stillman), Brill Academic Publishers , 2nd edition

· Advisory-member, The Academy of the Hebrew Language

· Chairperson, The academic committee of Misgav Yerushalayim, The Center for Research and Study of Sephardi and Oriental Jewish Heritage, The Hebrew University

Rabbinic Hebrew in Karaite writings; North-African Judeo-Arabic; Judeo-Arabic translations of the Bible and of post-biblical literature; Medieval Hebrew; Hebrew in Algeria in the 19th-20th centuries; The contact between Hebrew and Arabic in the Middle Ages.

Awards

2005 - Shelomo Dov Goitein Prize for Genizah Studies
2011 - Michelle and Robert Asaraf Prize by the Academy of Hebrew Langauge
2013 - Ben-Zvi Award for Resaerch of Jewish Communities in the East
2013 - Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines (first prize)

· Tirosh-Becker, O. (2011). Rabbinic Excerpts in Medieval Karaite Literature, 2 volumes, 1,282 pages, Jerusalem, The Bialik Institute and the Hebrew University. Volume 1:Philological and Linguistic Studies, 22+466+vi pages; Volume 2: A Critical Annotated Scientific Edition of the Texts, 15+816+vi pages. (in Hebrew)

· Tirosh-Becker, O. (1989). "A Characterization of the Judeo-Arabic Language of Constantine." Massorot 3-4:285-312. (in Hebrew)

· Tirosh-Becker, O. (1989-90). "The Hebrew Component in Judeo-Arabic." Leshonenu La'am 40-41:331-337. (in Hebrew) [A special volume on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Va'ad ha-Lashon]

· Tirosh-Becker, O. (1990). "On the Linguistic Uniformity of the 'Sharh' of the Jews of Constantine." Proceedings of the Tenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Section D, 1:197-204. (in Hebrew).

· Tirosh-Becker, O. (1990). "On the Arabic Glosses in the Italian Version of the 'Maqre Dardeqe'." Italia - Studi e ricerche sulla storia, la cultura e la letteratura degli ebrei d'Italia 9:37-77. (in Hebrew)

· Tirosh-Becker, O. (1991). "Studies in Rabbinic Quotations Embedded in the Pentateuch Commentaries of the Karaite Scholar Yeshu'a ben Yehuda." Massorot 5-6:313-340. (in Hebrew)

· Tirosh-Becker, O. (1994). "A Linguistic Study in Mishnaic Quotations Embedded in Yeshu'a ben Yehuda's Commentary on Leviticus." Massorot 7:145-186. (in Hebrew) [An abstract of this paper appears in: Issues in the Study of Rabbinic Hebrew, abstracts of the papers presented at a workshop on Rabbinic Hebrew, The Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 1991, pp. 126-127]

· Tirosh-Becker, O. (1997). "Elements and Quotations of Rabbinic Hebrew Embedded in Karaite Literature." Studies in Language 2 (Hebrew Through the Ages, in memory of Shoshanna Bahat):155-172. (in Hebrew)

· Tirosh-Becker, O. (1998). "Linguistic Study of a Rabbinic Quotation Embedded in a Karaite Commentary on Exodus." Scripta Hierosolymitana 37:380-407. (in English)

· Tirosh-Becker, O. (2003). "The Use of Rabbinic Sources in Karaite Writings." Karaite Judaism: A Guide to its History and Literary Sources, ed. M. Polliack, pp. 319-338, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, HOS Series Vol. 73. (in English)

· Tirosh-Becker, O. (2005). "Karaite Judeo-Arabic Translations of Excerpts from the Mishnah: On the Meaning of Ba'alil." Jewish Quarterly Review 95:530-556. (in English)

· Tirosh-Becker, O. (2006). "An Algerian Judeo-Arabic Translation of Piyyut 'Mi Khamokha' by Rabbi Yehuda Ha-Levi." Massorot 13-14:315-369. (in Hebrew)




Faculty of Humanities / Department of Hebrew and Jewish Languages Dr. Ofra Tirosh-Becker Sidney and Sarah Berg Senior Lecturer in Hebrew Language · Chair of the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Languages, The Hebrew University · Head of the Center for the Study of Jewish Languages and Literatures, The Hebrew University · Founding co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Jewish Languages, Brill Academic Publishers · Co-editor, Massorot: Studies in Language Traditions and Jewish Languages · Editor (Languages and Linguistics), Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (Chief editor: N. A. Stillman), Brill Academic Publishers , 2nd edition · Advisory-member, The Academy of the Hebrew Language · Chairperson, The academic committee of Misgav Yerushalayim, The Center for Research and Study of Sephardi and Oriental Jewish Heritage, The Hebrew University Research Interests: Rabbinic Hebrew in Karaite writings; North-African Judeo-Arabic; Judeo-Arabic translations of the Bible and of post-biblical literature; Medieval Hebrew; Hebrew in Algeria in the 19th-20th centuries; The contact between Hebrew and Arabic in the Middle Ages. Awards 2005 - Shelomo Dov Goitein Prize for Genizah Studies 2011 - Michelle and Robert Asaraf Prize by the Academy of Hebrew Langauge 2013 - Ben-Zvi Award for Resaerch of Jewish Communities in the East 2013 - Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines (first prize) Publications Books · Tirosh-Becker, O. (2011). Rabbinic Excerpts in Medieval Karaite Literature, 2 volumes, 1,282 pages, Jerusalem, The Bialik Institute and the Hebrew University. Volume 1:Philological and Linguistic Studies, 22+466+vi pages; Volume 2: A Critical Annotated Scientific Edition of the Texts, 15+816+vi pages. (in Hebrew) Edited Journal volumes · Tirosh-Becker, O. and Bunis, D. (2010), Massorot 15, 7+xix+229 pages. · Tirosh-Becker, O. and Bunis, D. (2013, forthcoming), Massorot 16. Papers · Tirosh-Becker, O. (1989). "A Characterization of the Judeo-Arabic Language of Constantine." Massorot 3-4:285-312. (in Hebrew) · Tirosh-Becker, O. (1989-90). "The Hebrew Component in Judeo-Arabic." Leshonenu La'am 40-41:331-337. (in Hebrew) [A special volume on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Va'ad ha-Lashon] · Tirosh-Becker, O. (1990). "On the Linguistic Uniformity of the 'Sharh' of the Jews of Constantine." Proceedings of the Tenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Section D, 1:197-204. (in Hebrew). · Tirosh-Becker, O. (1990). "On the Arabic Glosses in the Italian Version of the 'Maqre Dardeqe'." Italia - Studi e ricerche sulla storia, la cultura e la letteratura degli ebrei d'Italia 9:37-77. (in Hebrew) · Tirosh-Becker, O. (1991). "Studies in Rabbinic Quotations Embedded in the Pentateuch Commentaries of the Karaite Scholar Yeshu'a ben Yehuda." Massorot 5-6:313-340. (in Hebrew) · Tirosh-Becker, O. (1994). "A Linguistic Study in Mishnaic Quotations Embedded in Yeshu'a ben Yehuda's Commentary on Leviticus." Massorot 7:145-186. (in Hebrew) [An abstract of this paper appears in: Issues in the Study of Rabbinic Hebrew, abstracts of the papers presented at a workshop on Rabbinic Hebrew, The Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 1991, pp. 126-127] · Tirosh-Becker, O. (1997). "Elements and Quotations of Rabbinic Hebrew Embedded in Karaite Literature." Studies in Language 2 (Hebrew Through the Ages, in memory of Shoshanna Bahat):155-172. (in Hebrew) · Tirosh-Becker, O. (1998). "Linguistic Study of a Rabbinic Quotation Embedded in a Karaite Commentary on Exodus." Scripta Hierosolymitana 37:380-407. (in English) · Tirosh-Becker, O. (2003). "The Use of Rabbinic Sources in Karaite Writings." Karaite Judaism: A Guide to its History and Literary Sources, ed. M. Polliack, pp. 319-338, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, HOS Series Vol. 73. (in English) · Tirosh-Becker, O. (2005). "Karaite Judeo-Arabic Translations of Excerpts from the Mishnah: On the Meaning of Ba'alil." Jewish Quarterly Review 95:530-556. (in English) · Tirosh-Becker, O. (2006). "An Algerian Judeo-Arabic Translation of Piyyut 'Mi Khamokha' by Rabbi Yehuda Ha-Levi." Massorot 13-14:315-369. (in Hebrew) · Tirosh-Becker, O. (2006). Addition to the entry "Constantine". Encyclopedia Judaica, Second new edition, 5:181. (in English) · Tirosh-Becker, O. (2007). "Judeo-Arabic Translations of the Karaite Scholars Yeshu'ah ben Yehudah, Yusuf al-Basir and Ya'qub al-Qirqisani to Excerpts from the Mishnah". Sha'arei Lashon: Studies in Hebrew, Aramaic and Jewish Languages presented to Moshe Bar-Asher, eds. A. Maman, S.E. Fassberg, and Y. Breuer, Vol.3, Bialik Institute, Jerusalem, pp. 435-466. (in Hebrew) · Tirosh-Becker, O. (2010). "Jeshua ben Judah (Abū ’l-Faraj Furqān ibn Asad)." Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, Ed. N. A. Stillman, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, 3:21-22. (in English) · Tirosh-Becker, O. (2010). "Transcribed Hebrew Texts". Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, Ed. N. A. Stillman, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, 4:528-530. (in English) · Tirosh-Becker, O. (2010). "Translations of Rabbinic Sources into Arabic". Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, Ed. N. A. Stillman, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, 4:530-532. (in English) · Tirosh-Becker, O. (2011). "On Dialectal Roots in Judeo-Arabic Texts from Constantine (East Algeria)." Revue des Études Juives 170(1-2):227-253 (in English) · Tirosh-Becker, O. (2011). "Languages of Algerian Jews." in: H. Saadun (ed.), Algeria: Jewish Communities in the East in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Ben-Zvi Institute, Jerusalem, pp. 109-124. (in Hebrew) · Tirosh-Becker, O. (2011). "Archaic and Dialectal Features in an Algerian Judeo-Arabic Translation and Commentary of Tractate Avot." Hikrei Ma'arav u-Mizrah: Studies in Language, Literature and History Presented to Joseph Chetrit, eds. Y. Tobi and D. Kurzon, Jerusalem 2011, pp. 181-207. (in Hebrew) · Tirosh-Becker, O. (2011). “Terms for Realia in an Algerian Judeo-Arabic Translation of the Hošaʿnot”, Studies in the History and Culture of North African Jewry, eds. M. Bar-Asher and S. Fraade, New Haven, pp. 171-186. (in English) · Tirosh-Becker, O. (2012). “Mixed Linguistic Features in a Judeo-Arabic Text from Algeria: The Šarḥ to the Hafṭarot from Constantine”, Language and Nature: Papers presented to John Huehnergard on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday. Ed. R. Hasselbach and N. Pat-El. The Oriental Institute, Chicago, pp. 407-431. (in English) · Tirosh-Becker, O. (in print). ”Algeria, Hebrew in”. Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, Ed. G. Khan, Brill Academic Publishers, Boston. (in English) · Tirosh-Becker, O. (in print). ”Karaite sources for Rabbinic Hebrew (Tannaitic and Amoraic)”. Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, Ed. G. Khan, Brill Academic Publishers, Boston. (in English) Other publications · Tirosh-Becker, O. Compiler (1993). "A Bibliography of the Writings of Prof. Blau." Hebrew and Arabic Studies, in honour of Joshua Blau, Jerusalem-Tel Aviv, pp. 1-34. · Tirosh-Becker, O. Editor (1996). Studies in Rabbinic Hebrew: Abstracts of lectures in the International conference on Rabbinic Hebrew, The Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 154 pages. · Tirosh-Becker, O. (2001). Multi-annual Report 1985-2001 of The Center for the Study of Jewish Languages and Literatures. [A booklet of 36 pages] · Tirosh-Becker, O. (2005). Multi-annual Report 2002-2005 of The Center for the Study of Jewish Languages and Literatures. [A booklet of 22 pages] Contact information: Dr. Ofra Tirosh-Becker Department of Hebrew and Jewish Languages The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel 91905 Tel. +972-2-5880244 Fax: +972-2-533-6828 Email: otirosh@mscc.huji.ac.il Contact