Re: [ha-Safran] The Little-known Language Spoken by Jews in the Medieval Arab World (Jacqueline Benefraim)

2018-10-01 Thread Schelly Talalay Dardashti
Lots of errors in the article. Persian (Iranian) Jews used Judeo-Farsi, NOT Judeo-Arabic, and have an entire body of literature in that language.Iran was/is NOT an Arab country, although it is a Moslem country. People are just not careful in presenting details. :-) Schelly Talalay

Re: [ha-Safran] The Little-known Language Spoken by Jews in the Medieval Arab World (Jacqueline Benefraim)

2018-10-01 Thread Schelly Talalay Dardashti
Lots of errors in the article. Persian (Iranian) Jews used Judeo-Farsi, NOT Judeo-Arabic, and have an entire body of literature in that language.Iran was/is NOT an Arab country, although it is a Moslem country. People are just not careful in presenting details. :-) Schelly Talalay

Re: [ha-Safran] The Little-known Language Spoken by Jews in the Medieval Arab World

2018-10-01 Thread Michal Strutin
Thanks, Heidi-- Fascinating article, both about Judeo-Arabic and Prof. Blau. And helpful to me as I am working on the first of a mystery series set in the late Renaissance (Safed and commercial centers around the Mediterranean in the time of Ha'Ari). I've spent time trying to figure out what all

Re: [ha-Safran] The Little-known Language Spoken by Jews in the Medieval Arab World

2018-10-01 Thread Jacqueline Benefraim
Hi Heidi, I was not able to open the entire article while traveling in Israel. However I wanted to let you know that my Baghdadi in-laws spoke Judeo-Arabic at home and a friend who escaped Iraq at age 5 had his mouth stuffed with pita when crossing the border so as not to reveal that they were

[ha-Safran] Subsidized program to Germany for students and young professionals

2018-10-01 Thread Shirazi, Gail
Dear Colleagues, In August, I participated in an amazing educational program to Germany funded by Germany Close Up. Below is a description for the December program. This is a heavily subsidized tour for North American students and young professionals. I participated through the partnership