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David M. Bunis
David M. Bunis (born in Brooklyn, New York, June 3, 1952)

After his doctoral dissertation on the Hebrew-Aramaic component of Modern Judezmo (also known as Judeo-Spanish, Ladino, Spanyol) was accepted in 1980 by Columbia University's Department of Linguistics, David M. Bunis joined the Faculty of Humanities of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as its Judezmo Studies specialist. In 2006 Bunis was appointed full professor in the Hebrew University's Department of Hebrew and Jewish Languages. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Bunis supervised research projects on Judezmo language and literature supported by academic funding agencies in Israel and abroad. He participated in numerous international conferences on Judezmo and Jewish language research. Bunis has served as an advisor to the Israel National Authority for Ladino Language and Culture, the Israel Ministry of Education (Ladino programs), academic institutes in Israel, the United States, and Europe, and research funding agencies in Israel and abroad. He acted as academic chairman of the Misgav Yerushalayim research center (2006-2009), chairman of the Toledano Prize committee (2004), and a member of the Israel Prize in Jewish Languages selection committee (2013). He is co-editor of Massorot and a member of the editorial boards of several journals devoted to linguistics and Jewish languages. In 2006 David Bunis was awarded the Ben-Zvi Life’s Work Prize for his pioneering contributions to Judezmo Studies. In 2013 he received the EMET Prize for the Study of Jewish Languages.

Books

 * A Guide to Reading and Writing Judezmo, New York, The Judezmo Society, 1975, 2d ed., 1976, ISBN-10 0917288017 / ISBN-13 9780917288012.


 * Sephardic Studies: A Bibliography for Research, New York, Garland Press & YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 1981 (Garland reference library of the humanities, vol. 174), ISBN 0824097599. [Rev. M. Boaziz, Bulletin Hispanique 88:1 (1986), 269-270]


 * A Lexicon of the Hebrew and Aramaic Elements in Modern Judezmo, Jerusalem, Magnes Press, 1993, ISBN 9652238031. With a foreward by Shelomo Morag.


 * Yiddish Linguistics: A Classified Bilingual Index to Yiddish Serials and Collections, 1913-1958, (with Andrew Sunshine), New York, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research & Garland Press, 1994, ISBN 10: 0824097580 / ISBN 13: 9780824097585.


 * Voices from Jewish Salonika, Jerusalem, Misgav Yerushalayim, 1999, ISBN 9652960446 / 9789652960443. (In English, Judezmo, Hebrew.)


 * Judezmo: An Introduction to the Language of the Ottoman Sephardim, Jerusalem, Magnes Press, 1999, ISBN 10 9654930242 / ISBN 13 9789654930246. (In Hebrew.)
 * Languages and Literatures of Sephardic and Oriental Jews, Jerusalem, Misgav Yerushalayim & Mossad Bialik, 2009, ISBN 978-965-342-985-7.

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