Ofra Tirosh-Becker

Datos Biográficos

ID8250378
NOMBREOfra Tirosh-Becker
NOMBRESOfra
APELLIDOTirosh-Becker
FIRMATIROSH-BECKER O
AFILIACIONESAssociation for Jewish Studies
ORCID0000-0002-9234-1472
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS7
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR7
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2013
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H0

  • Practices and Challenges in Documenting Endangered Jewish Languages

    Open AccessSarah Bunin Benor, Ofra Tirosh-BeckerARTICLEJournal of Jewish Languages2024

    This forum brings together nine researchers to offer their perspectives on the process of language documentation. Questions include how they find speakers, how they conduct their research, and what linguistic data and metadata they collect. We asked about practical and scholarly issues that have arisen in their fieldwork, including speakers avoiding stigmatized linguistic features and exhibiting influences from Modern Hebrew. Some of the points a…

  • In Memoriam, Professor Bernard Dov Spolsky, z”l (1932–2022)

    Sarah Bunin Benor, Ofra Tirosh-BeckerARTICLEJournal of Jewish Languages2022

    We were saddened to learn of the death of Professor Bernard Dov Spolsky, our close colleague and a member of the advisory board of the

  • Taja Corpus

    Ofra Tirosh-Becker, Oren M BeckerARTICLEJournal of Jewish Languages2022

    The Tagged Algerian Judeo-Arabic ( TAJA ) corpus is the first linguistically annotated corpus of any Judeo-Arabic dialect regardless of geography and period. The corpus is a genre-diverse collection of written Modern Algerian Judeo-Arabic texts, encompassing translations of the Bible and of liturgical texts, commentaries and original Judeo-Arabic books and journals. The TAJA corpus was manually annotated with parts-of-speech ( POS ) tags and deta…

  • Contact between Textual Hebrew/Aramaic and Diaspora Jewish Languages

    Sarah Bunin Benor, Ofra Tirosh-BeckerARTICLEJournal of Jewish Languages2020

    When we started this journal eight years ago, we envisioned that it would feature articles on many Jewish languages, written by scholars around the world.Indeed, issues 1-7 included articles on 17 different Jewish languages, as well as a few articles about multiple languages.The authors of these articles reside in 12 countries: 63% in Israel, 19% in the US, 17% in Europe, and 1% in East Asia.This thematic issue continues this diverse orientation …

  • In Memoriam, Professor Joshua Blau z”l (1919–2020)

    Ofra Tirosh-Becker, Sarah Bunin BenorARTICLEJournal of Jewish Languages2020

    Emeritus at the Hebrew University and one of the world's seminal Semitic linguists, reached us while this volume was in preparation.For more than seventy years Prof. Blau was a transformational researcher, a highly esteemed scholar admired by generations of students and by his students'

  • Obituary

    Sarah Bunin Benor, Ofra Tirosh-BeckerARTICLEJournal of Jewish Languages2015

  • A New Venue for Research on Jewish Languages

    Sarah Bunin Benor, Ofra Tirosh-BeckerARTICLEJournal of Jewish Languages2013