Sarah Bunin Benor | |
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National Jewish Book Award in Education and Jewish Identity (2020) Sami Rohr Choice Award for Jewish Literature (2019) |
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Discipline | Jewish studies |
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Sarah Bunin Benor is an American linguist and scholar of Jewish languages. She is a professor of contemporary Jewish studies and linguistics and vice provost of Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion. [1]
Benor graduated from Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in North Bethesda, Maryland. [2] She received her B.A. from Columbia University in comparative literature in 1997 and Ph.D. from Stanford University in linguistics in 2004. [1] [3] While working at the Columbia University Libraries as a college student, she stumbled across references to rare languages such as Judeo-Italian and Judaeo-Spanish, which led to her interest in studying linguistics, especially Jewish languages. [4] Her research has focused on Jewish languages, Yiddish, and American Jews. [1] She directs the Jewish Language Project at Hebrew Union College, which runs the Jewish Language Website and the Jewish English Lexicon. [5] [6]
Benor is author of Becoming Frum: How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism (2012), which won the 2013 Sami Rohr Choice Award for Jewish Literature. [7] In 2021, she received a National Jewish Book Award in Education and Jewish Identity for her book Hebrew Infusion (2020), a book on language infusion at Jewish summer camps co-authored with Jonathan Krasner and Sharon Avni. [8] [9] [10]
Benor is an Ashkenazi Jew. [11]
Sarah Bunin Benor | |
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Awards |
National Jewish Book Award in Education and Jewish Identity (2020) Sami Rohr Choice Award for Jewish Literature (2019) |
Academic background | |
Education | |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Jewish studies |
Institutions |
Sarah Bunin Benor is an American linguist and scholar of Jewish languages. She is a professor of contemporary Jewish studies and linguistics and vice provost of Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion. [1]
Benor graduated from Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in North Bethesda, Maryland. [2] She received her B.A. from Columbia University in comparative literature in 1997 and Ph.D. from Stanford University in linguistics in 2004. [1] [3] While working at the Columbia University Libraries as a college student, she stumbled across references to rare languages such as Judeo-Italian and Judaeo-Spanish, which led to her interest in studying linguistics, especially Jewish languages. [4] Her research has focused on Jewish languages, Yiddish, and American Jews. [1] She directs the Jewish Language Project at Hebrew Union College, which runs the Jewish Language Website and the Jewish English Lexicon. [5] [6]
Benor is author of Becoming Frum: How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism (2012), which won the 2013 Sami Rohr Choice Award for Jewish Literature. [7] In 2021, she received a National Jewish Book Award in Education and Jewish Identity for her book Hebrew Infusion (2020), a book on language infusion at Jewish summer camps co-authored with Jonathan Krasner and Sharon Avni. [8] [9] [10]
Benor is an Ashkenazi Jew. [11]