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Sarah Bunin Benor, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies
Dr. Benor is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies at the Los Angeles campus. She teaches about the social science of American Jews, as well as about language and culture. She mentors students in the School of Jewish Communal Services and serves as Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include Jewish languages, American Jewish identity and culture, sociolinguistic variation, the linguistic construction of identity, language contact, ethnography, and Orthodox Jews. She is the founder, producer, and editor of the Jewish Language Research Website, and she is the founder and moderator of the Jewish Languages Mailing List.
Areas of Expertise
- Sociology and anthropology of American Jews
- Jewish language, culture, and society
- Yiddish
- Linguistic socialization of newly Orthodox Jews
- Sociolinguistic variation
- Language socialization
- Linguistic construction of identity
- Ethnography
- Orthodox Jews
Education
- Ph.D., M.A., Stanford University, Linguistics (2004)
- B.A., Columbia University, Comparative Literature, Linguistics, Yiddish (1997)
Lecture Topics
- American Jewish Identity and Engagement
- Jewish Language
- Orthodox Judaism
- Yiddish
Electronic Resources
Recent Publications
- Benor, Sarah Bunin. To appear. "Do American Jews Speak a 'Jewish Language'? A
Model of Jewish Linguistic Distinctiveness." To appear in Jewish Quarterly Review.
- Benor, Sarah Bunin and Roger Levy. 2006. "The Chicken or the Egg? A Probabilistic Analysis of English Binomials."
Language 82.2, June 2006. 233-27.
- Benor, Sarah Bunin. 2004. "Talmid Chachams and Tsedeykeses: Language, Learnedness, and Masculinity Among
Orthodox Jews." Jewish Social Studies 11/1.
- Spolsky, Bernard and Sarah Bunin Benor. 2006. "Jewish Languages." In Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics.
Keith Brown, ed. 2nd edition. Vol. 6. Oxford: Elsevier. 120-124.
- Benor, Sarah Bunin. To appear. "Lexical Othering: How Ottoman Sephardim Refer to Non-Jews." Proceedings of
Misgav Yerushalayim's Sixth International Conference on Languages and Literatures of Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews,
1999. Yaakov Bentolila, David Bunis, and Ephraim Hazan, eds. Jerusalem: Hebrew University.
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