Moshe Bar-Asher

Professor Moshe Bar-Asher משה בר-אשר
150px Moshe Bar-Asher
Born	(1939-06-29) June 29, 1939 Morocco
Residence	Israel
Occupation	Linguist
Known for	President of the Academy of the Hebrew Language

Moshe Bar-Asher (Hebrew: משה בר-אשר‎; born 1939, Ksar es Souk, Morocco) is an Israeli linguist and the president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language in Jerusalem.

Background

Bar-Asher was born in Ksar es Souk (modern Errachidia), Morocco, in 1939. He immigrated to Israel in 1951 when he was twelve years old.

Bar-Asher received his Ph.D from the Hebrew University in 1976. Between 1981 and 1983 he was chair of the university's Department of the Hebrew Language, and from 1983 to 1986 chair of the university's Institute for Jewish Studies. In 1987 he became vice president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language, of which he was appointed president in 1993.

Scholarship

Bar-Asher's scholarship has mainly been focused on three areas: Rabbinic Hebrew, Palestinian Syriac and Jewish languages.

Awards and honors

• Eliezer Samson Rosenthal Prize for Talmudic studies (1988)
• Israel Prize in the field of Hebrew language and Jewish languages (1993)
• Honorary doctorate from the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (1995)
• Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Prize for research into the customs of Oriental Jewry (2002)
• Honorary doctorate from Haifa University (2005)
• Rothschild Prize (2008)

See also

• List of Israel Prize recipients
• List of Israeli Mizrahi Jews and Sephardi Jews
• Arthur Pereyre
• Janice Rebibo

External links

• The Academy of the Hebrew Language