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Shlomo Morag
Shlomo Morag, also spelled Shelomo Morag (; 17 July 1926 – 1999), was an Israeli professor at the department of Hebrew Language at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Morag founded the Jewish Oral Traditions Research Center at the Hebrew University and served as the head of Ben Zvi Institute for the study of Jewish communities in the East for several years. He was a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and a fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research.
traditions of Yemenite Jews from different areas of Yemen.
Works Babylonian Aramaic: The Yemenite Tradition.
This book, for which Morag was awarded the Bialik Prize, describes the phonology and morphology of the Yemenite tradition of the Aramaic of the Babylonian Talmud. The book is based on the reading tradition of Sana'ani Jews, as recorded mainly at the Jewish Oral Traditions Research Center at the Hebrew University which Morag founded.
According to Shlomo Morag, the Yemenite tradition is the best reading tradition of the Jewish Babylonian Aramaic:
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