Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

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Yigal Levin



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Bar-Ilan University

The Faculty of Jewish Studies

The Department of Jewish History

The Project for the Study of Jewish Names

 

The Eighth International Conference on Jewish Names

 

Call for Papers

 

The Eighth International Conference on Jewish Names will take place at 
Bar-Ilan University on Thursday, June 21, 2007. The steering committee 
invites papers on Jewish personal names, family names, epithets and 
place-names from the biblical period through the modern age, from all Jewish 
communities world-wide and from all fields of research, including 
linguistics, literature, sociology, genealogy, and toponymics. Papers will be 
given in Hebrew and English. 

 

In honor of his retirement, the conference will recognize Professor Aaron 
Demsky's contribution to the field of Jewish onomastics.

 

Scholars who wish to present papers are requested to send a 300 word abstract 
to one of the organizers listed below no later than March 1, 2007.

 

Yigal Levin, Dept. of Jewish History, leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il.

Boris Kotlerman, Dept. of Jewish Literature, kotlerb AT mail.biu.ac.il.

Tsuguya (Tsvi) Sasaki, Dept. of Hebrew and Semitic Languages, 
ts AT ts-cyberia.net.

 

Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, ISRAEL.