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Moroccan-Israeli philologist and professor of Hebrew
Yaakov Bentolila (
Hebrew : יעקב בן-טולילה ) (born 1935)
[1] is an Israeli philologist, a professor of Hebrew language at
Ben Gurion University in
Beersheba , and a member of the
Hebrew Language Academy since 2004.
Bentolila was born in 1935 to Vidal and Mercedes Bentolila, a
Sephardic Jewish family. He studied at a school of the
Alliance Israélite Universelle and later at the Spanish Lyceum in Tétouan. In 1950, he moved to France, and made
Aliyah a year later, arriving in
Yavne . Upon reaching adulthood, he served in the
Israel Defense Forces under the
Nahal Brigade .
[2]
His parents immigrated to Israel in 1956, along with his two brothers. They passed through an immigration center to
Kiryat Gat , where Bentolila worked as an electrician. In 1958, he began working with
Bnei Akiva , travelling back to Morocco, France, and other
Maghrebi countries . While working for Bnei Akiva, he met his wife, a
French Jew of
Hungarian origin. They married in
Strasbourg in 1961.[
citation needed ]
Bentolila was the head of the Hebrew Language Department at Ben-Gurion University from 1974 to 1992.
[2] Concurrently, he conducted research at the Center for Jewish Studies at
Harvard , and became well known among researchers studying
Haketia and
Judeo-Spanish culture of North Africa .
[3]
Bentolila, Yaakov (1989).
A French-Italian Tradition of Post-Biblical Hebrew [IN HEBREW]. [SERIES]: Publications of The Hebrew University Language Traditions Project / XIV . Beer Sheva: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press.
Bentolila, Yaakov (Dec 1996).
"Un message crypté dans l'inscription synagogale de Haguenau" . ResearchGate . Retrieved 5 Jul 2023 .
Ben-Tolila, Yaakov (1997). Šay lHadasah: meḥqariym balašwn haʿibriyt wbilšwnwt haYhwdiym . ʾEšel Bʾer-Šebaʿ (in Hebrew). Ben Gurion university of the Negev. Bʾer-Šebaʿ: Hwṣ. haspariym šel ʾWniybersiyṭat Ben-Gwrywn baNegeb.
ISBN
978-965-342-664-1 .
Bentolila, Yaakov (Jan 2002).
"From Written to Oral — Canonical Literature as Reflected in Proverbs / מן הכתב אל הפה: גלגולה של ספרות קאנונית בפתגמים" . Researchgate . Retrieved 5 Jul 2023 .
Haketia: The Judeo-Spanish of North Africa
[3] Los Muestros N°61, (December 2005)
Bentolila, Yaakov; Alexander, Tamar (2008).
איל פריזינטי (in Hebrew). Vol. 2–4. Negev: Universidad Ben-Gurion del Negev.
ISBN
9789659116416 .
La palabra en su hora es oro, co-written with Tamar Alexander (2009)
[4]
Alexander, Tamar;
Bentolila, Yaakov ; Şarhon, Karen Gerson; Papo, Eliezer (2009).
" 'Maria, sister of Aaron, play your tambourine': Music in the Lives of Crypto-Jewish Women in Portugal" . El Prezente: Studies in Sephardic Culture . 3 : 293–314.
ISBN
978-965-91164-2-3 .
Bentolila, Yaakov (2010).
Studies in the history and culture of North African Jewry : proceedings of the symposium at Yale University, April 25, 2010 . New Haven: Program in Judaic Studies.
ISBN
9789654810418 .
Bentolila, Yaakov; Alexander, Tamar (Dec 2010).
"Adolescence and the Period of Apprenticeship among the Western Sephardim in the Seventeenth Century" . ResearchGate . Retrieved 5 Jul 2023 .
Bentolila, Yaakov; Center, Gaon (2015-01-01).
"Yaakov Bentolila, "Cómo se trokan los proverbiosˮ, El Prezente 8-9 / Mikan 15, III (2015), pp. 1-9" .
Alexander, Tamar; Bentolila, Yaakov (2015), Grandl, Christian; McKenna, Kevin J. (eds.),
"Judeo-Spanish Haketic Proverbs from Northern Morocco: Sources and Studies" , Bis dat, qui cito dat , Peter Lang Publishing Inc., pp. 17–28,
ISBN
978-3-631-64872-8 , retrieved 2023-07-06
Bentolila, Yaakov (2016).
Diccionario del elemento hebreo en la haketía [Dictionary of Hebrew elements in Haketia ] (in Spanish). Cordoba: UCOPress.
ISBN
978-8499272009 .
THE ON THE MEANING OF PERSONAL NAMES IN HAKITIC PROVERBS, co-written with Tamar Alexander
[5]
Bentolila, Yaakov.
"El Prezente Studies in Sephardic Culture The National Authority for Ladino and its Culture" .
Bentolila, Yaakov.
"Une taqqana tétouanaise de 1822" . www.academia.edu . Retrieved 2023-07-06 . <
Bentolila, Yaakov.
"Bilingualism in a Moroccan Settlement in the South of Israel 1" . www.academia.edu . Retrieved 2023-07-06 .
Bentolila, Yaakov.
"La résurrection d'une langue morte : le cas de l'hébreu moderne" . www.academia.edu . Retrieved 2023-07-06 .
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