Blessings and Curses in Judeo-Arabic Languages of Maghrebi Jews - A discussion with Dr. Jonas Sibony

01/05/2018 47 min Episodio 5
Blessings and Curses in Judeo-Arabic Languages of Maghrebi Jews - A discussion with Dr. Jonas Sibony

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In this episode, I spoke with Semitic languages expert Dr. Jonas Sibony, who is currently a professor of Modern Hebrew at Université de Strasbourg. The main topic of our discussion was Blessings and Curses in Judeo-Arabic languages of the Jews of North Africa, but we also spent a lot of time discussing the similarities and differences between Hebrew and Arabic as well as the evolution of the Hebrew language.Send us a text