Yona Sabar
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Yona Sabar (Template:Langx; born 1938 in Zakho, Iraq) is a Kurdistani Jewish scholar, linguist and researcher. He is professor emeritus of Hebrew at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a native speaker of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic and has published more than 90 research articles about Jewish Neo-Aramaic and the folklore of the Jews of Kurdistan.
Sabar was born in the town of Zakho in northern Iraq. His family moved to Israel in 1951. He received a B.A. in Hebrew and Arabic from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1963 and a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures from Yale University in 1970.
His immigrant journey from the hills of Kurdistan to the highways of Los Angeles is the subject of an award-winning memoir by his son, Ariel Sabar, an American author and journalist.[1] Ariel Sabar's book My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for his Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography.[2]
Works
- The Folk Literature of the Kurdistani Jews: An Anthology, Yale University Press, 232 pp., 1982. Template:ISBN
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External links
- Yona Sabar's UCLA website
- My Father's Paradise by Ariel Sabar
- Hollywood Calling by Ariel Sabar
- Prof. Sabar on the claim that Barzani is Jewish by JTA
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- Iraqi Jews
- Iraqi emigrants to Israel
- Kurdish Jews
- 1938 births
- Living people
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
- Yale University alumni
- University of California, Los Angeles faculty
- University of California Near Eastern Languages and Cultures faculty
- Kurdish scholars
- Kurdish social scientists
- American people of Iraqi-Assyrian descent
- People from Zakho