Year: 2023
Type: other
Abstract: In Memoriam: Moshe Shaul z"lOn April 1, 2023, the world of Judezmo (or Ladino, Djudeo-Espanyol, or Spanyolit) language and culture lost its leading activist and publicist of over 60 years, Moshe Shaul z"l.Moshe Shaul was born on May 24, 1929, in Izmir, where he grew up in a Judezmo-speaking environment and became captivated by the speakers' culture.In 1949 he immigrated to the newly founded State of Israel, settling in Jerusalem.From his first year of studies at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Shaul spent part of his time recording over 2,000 selections from the Djudeo-Espanyol oral folklore tradition.In 1959 Shaul received a bachelor's degree in sociology and political science from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.He then went on to dedicate his entire professional life to his group's traditional Jewish language, which he preferred to call Djudeo-Espanyol.He contributed to the description and documentation of the language and the culture and history of its speakers (see bibliography); he wrote and broadcasted in it; he encouraged the use of the language by others, especially by his fellow post-Ottoman Sephardim in Turkey and the Balkans, and in the immigrant communities they founded elsewhere.
Source: Journal of Jewish Languages
Author: David M. Bunis
Institution: Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4377022505