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Shlomo Morag

Shlomo Morag, also spelled Shelomo Morag (Hebrew: שלמה מורג; 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.[1]

Shlomo Morag

(1926-07-17)July 17, 1926

Petah Tikva, Mandatory Palestine

September 4, 1999(1999-09-04) (aged 73)

Jerusalem, Israel

Israeli

The Israel Prize, the Bialik Prize

Semitic linguistics, Jewish studies

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

In 1966, Morag was awarded the in Jewish studies, for his book "The Hebrew Language Tradition of the Yemenite Jews".[4] He was the youngest person to receive this prize at the time.

Israel Prize

In 1989, he was the co-recipient (jointly with ) of the Bialik Prize for Jewish thought.[5] He received the prize for his book "Babylonian Aramaic: The Yemenite Tradition".

Shmuel Abramski

Works[edit]

The Hebrew Language Tradition of the Yemenite Jews[edit]

The base for this book, for which Morag received the Israel Prize, was his PhD thesis. In this book he describes the Yemenite Hebrew, the traditional reading of the bible and the Mishnah.[6]


Morag distinguishes the Yemenite tradition from other Hebrew oral traditions for several reasons:

List of Israel Prize recipients

(1947). "Dr. Shlomo Morag (Mirkin)" ד"ר שלמה מורג (מירקין). Encyclopedia of the Founders and Builders of Israel (in Hebrew). Vol. 9. Estate of David Tidhar and Touro College Libraries. p. 3324.

Tidhar, David