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Lewis Glinert

Lewis GlinertProfessor, Dept of Asian and Mid Eastern Languages & Literatures

Education: Ph.D. London University, 1974

 

Jewish Studies or Associated Courses Taught

 

JWST16/HEB10/AMES17:   Introduction to Hebrew and Israeli Culture

JWST24.1/HEB51:  Hebrew of the Bible

JWST24.2/HEB63/CL41:  Jewish Humor and Its Roots: Rabbis, Rogues and Schlemiels

JWST24.3/HEB62/CL70:  Midrash: How the Rabbis Interpreted the Bible

JWST24.4/HEB61:  Struggle and Rebirth in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish  Literature

 

 

 

Campus Address

  • 6191 Bartlett Hall, Hanover, NH 03755
    Telephone (office): (603) 646 0364
    Fax 603 646 3115

E-mail: Lewis.H.Glinert@Dartmouth.EDU

Recent Lectures

  • Invited speaker at Bar Ilan University international symposium “Traces, Folds and Splits: Types of Continuities in the Literature of the Jewish People”, January 2002
    Title: The Hasidic story and the sociolinguistic modernization of Eastern European Jews
  • Delivered the inaugural lecture at the opening of the Institute for the Study of Hasidic Texts at Hebrew College, MA, March 2002.
    Title: The drama in the narrative: The tales of the Baal Shem Tov

Recent Papers

  • 'Golem: The making of a modern myth.' Symposium 55(2), pp. 78-94, Summer 2001

Research Interests

Glinert's current and recent research interests focus on three main areas:

  • General Discourse Analysis, particularly as applied to contemporary Hebrew
  • Language Planning: working on theoretical aspects of function planning, with particular reference to
    • Absorption of immigrants in Israel;
    • The status of Hebrew as a written language;
    • The sociology of Hebrew dictionaries.
  • Sociolinguistics of Jewish Language:
    • The Yiddish letter-writing manual, a little explored Yiddish literary genre that challenges sociolinguistic conventions about what Yiddish is legitimate;
    • The language of the Ultraorthodox Jewish world;
    • The rebirth of Spoken Hebrew.
  • In addition, Glinert has recently published studies in popular Jewish and Israeli culture:
    • The Golem myth
    • The musical memorialization of Yitzhak Rabin.

Major Publications

Books

  • 1. The Grammar of Modern Hebrew, Cambridge University Press, 1989
  • 2. The Joys of Hebrew, Oxford University Press, 1992.
  • 3. (Editor) Hebrew in Ashkenaz: A Language in Exile, Oxford University Press, 1993
  • 4. Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar, Routledge, 1994.
  • 5. Mamme Dear: A Turn-of-the-Century Collection of Model Yiddish Letters, Jason Aronson, 1997

Monographs

  • 1. Aspects of British Judaism, SOAS Occasional Series in World Religions, 1985.
  • 2. (Co-editor) Language among the Hasidim, = special issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language (forthcoming)

Articles

  • 1976
    • 1. 'The suffix -ayim: A case of syntactico-lexical homonymy', Hebrew Computational Linguistics 10, pp.1-16. [In Hebrew]
    • 2. 'How od : A Modern Hebrew pseudoquantifier', in Peter Cole (ed.) Studies in Modern Hebrew syntax and semantics, North-Holland, Amsterdam, pp.249-263.
  • 1977
    • 3.'Number switch in Modern Hebrew', Afroasiatic Linguistics 4:2, pp.1-38, 1977. 1978
    • 4.'Shadow noun phrases in Modern Hebrew', Hebrew Computational Linguistics 13, pp.28-69, 1978. [In Hebrew]
    • 5. 'Quantifiers and determiners in teaching Hebrew as a second language', Orahot 10, pp.36-45, 1978. [In Hebrew]
  • 1979
    • 6. 'Linguistics and language teaching: The implications for Modern Hebrew', Hebrew Annual Review 3, pp.105-127, 1979. 1982
    • 7. 'Negative and non-assertive in Contemporary Hebrew', BSOAS 45, pp.434-470, 1982.
    • 8. 'The preposition in Biblical and Modern Hebrew: Towards a redefinition', Hebrew Studies 23, pp.115-125, 1982.
    • 9. 'The recovery of Hebrew', Times Literary Supplement, 17 June 1982.
    • 10. 'The hypothetical conditional in Modern Hebrew', Proceedings of the Eighth World Congress of Jewish Studies, vol.4, pp.51-55, 1982. [In Hebrew]
  • 1983
    • 11. 'The reciprocal structure in Modern Hebrew', in Shlomo Kodesh (ed.) David Gross Anniversary Volume, Jerusalem, pp.196-213, 1983. [In Hebrew] 1985
    • 12. 'Modern linguistics as a tool in Torah study', HaMaayan 26:1, pp.43-47, 1985. [In Hebrew] 1987
    • 13. 'Hebrew', in Arthur A. Cohen and Paul Mendes-Flohr (eds.) Contemporary Jewish Religious Thought, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, pp.325-330, 1987.
    • 14. 'Lexicographical method in the dictionaries of Avraham Even-Shoshan', Mehkarim be-lashon 3-4, pp.167-175, 1987. [In Hebrew]
    • 15. 'Hebrew-Yiddish diglossia, type and stereotype: Implications of the language of Ganzfried's 'Kitzur', International Journal of the Sociology of Language 67, pp.39-55, 1987.
    • 16.' Link adverbials in Hebrew discourse', Am Vasefer 4, pp.68-79. 1987. [In Hebrew]
  • 1988
    • 17. 'Adverbial clauses and clauses as adverbials', in Yoel Arbeitman (ed.) Fucus: A Semitic/Afroasiatic Gathering in Remembrance of Albert Ehrman, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp.253-260, 1988.
    • 18. 'On the description of Contemporary Hebrew', Proceedings of the Ninth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Panel Sessions: Hebrew and Aramaic Languages, Jerusalem, pp.93-99, 1988 [In Hebrew]
    • 19. 'Did pre-Revival Hebrew literature have its own langue? -- Quotation and improvization in Mendele Mokher Sefarim', BSOAS 51:3, 1988, pp.413-427.
  • 1989
    • 20. 'The Historical Dictionary of the Hebrew Language: A sociolinguistic evaluation', Biqoret u-Farshanut 25, pp.77-88, 1989. [In Hebrew]
    • 21. 'A note on the morphology of sequential counting forms: The case of Modern Hebrew', Journal of Semitic Studies, 34, pp.179-181, 1989.
    • 22. 'Teaching in a time warp: The Hebrew Ulpan under Perestroyka', Soviet Jewish Affairs, 19:2, pp.41-45, 1989.
    • 23.'A unified framework for identity and similarity structures: Israeli Hebrew kmo', in Paul Wexler, A. Borg and S. Somekh (eds.) Studia Linguistica et Orientalia Memoriae Haim Blanc Dedicata, Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden.
  • 1990
    • 24. 'yesh __ and yesh lo __ in Formal Contemporary Hebrew -- Subject or Object?', Hebrew Computational Linguistics, 28-29-30, pp.207-212 . [In Hebrew]
    • 25. 'The syntax of Mendele's "Fishke der Krumer"', Oxforder Yiddish, 1, pp.77-90 . [in Yiddish]
    • 26. 'Cause and concession in Modern Yiddish', in Paul Wexler (ed.) Studies in Yiddish Linguistics, Max Niemayer Verlag Tübingen, pp.1-8 .
    • 27. 'The unknown grammar of Abraham Ibn Ezra: Syntactic features of Yesod Diqduq', in Abraham Ibn Ezra Y Su Tiempo, F. De Esteban (ed.)Madrid, 1989, pp. 129-36.
  • 1991
    • 28. 'Language choice in Halakhic speech acts', in Robert L. Cooper & Bernard Spolsky (eds) Language, Society, and Thought: Essays in Honor of Joshua A. Fishman's 65th Birthday, Mouton de Gruyter, pp.161-186.
    • 29. (with Y. Shilhav) 'Holy land, holy language: Language and territory in an Ultraorthodox Jewish ideology', Language in Society 20, pp. 59-86.
    • 30. 'The back-to-the-future syndrome in Language Planning: The case of Modern Hebrew', in David F. Marshall (ed) Focus on Language Planning, John Benjamins, pp. 215-243.
    • 31. 'Putting the meaning back into leyning : An expressionist approach to the Taamei Neginah', Le'eyla, 32, pp. 16-18.
  • 1992
    • 32. 'Two modal constructions in Modern Hebrew', Balshanut Ivrit 33-34-35, pp. 229-234 [in Hebrew]
  • 1993
    • 33. 'On the sources of Modern Colloquial Hebrew: David Yellin's primer Ivrit Le-fi Ha-taf', Leshonenu. , 55, pp. 107-126. [in Hebrew]
    • 34. 'Hebrew toward the year 2000: from symbol to substance' in Alan Mintz (ed.) Hebrew in America: Perspectives and prospects, Wayne University Press, pp. 227-250.
    • 35. 'The first conference for Modern Hebrew, or when is a congress not a congress?' in Joshua Fishman (ed.) The Earliest stage of language planning: The "first congress" phenomenon, Mouton De Gruyter, pp. 85-115
    • 36. 'Language as quasilect: Hebrew in contemporary Anglo-Jewry', in Lewis Glinert (ed) Hebrew in Ashkenaz: A language in exile, Oxford University Press, pp. 249-264.
  • 1994
    • 37. 'Hebrew', Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Pergamon Press, 1994.
    • 38. 'Modern Hebrew lexicography: The last hundred years', Jewish Book Annual 52, pp. 37-58.
  • 1995
    • 39. 'What has gone wrong with Israel's Right?', Shofar 13(4), pp. 83-85
    • 40. 'Inside the language planner's head: Tactical responses to a mass migration', Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 16(5), pp. 351-372.
  • 1996
    • 41. Toward a sociology of Ashkenazi Hebrew', Jewish Social Studies 2(3), pp. 85-114.
    • 42. 'At the seam of syntax and semantics: "as if" in Modern Hebrew' in M. Bar-Asher (ed.) Studies in Hebrew and Jewish Languages Presented to Shelomo Morag, Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute, pp. 15-32.
    • 43. 'Product safety information and language policy in an advanced Third World economy: The case of Israel', Journal of Consumer Policy, 19(4), 411-438.
  • 1997
    • 44. 'We never changed our language: Attitudes of British Hasidic educators to Yiddish', Osnabrücker Beitrage zur Sprachtheorie, 54, pp. 60-88 [in German]
    • 45. 'Scientific-technological discourse: The State of the Art', in J Rosenhouse, Y. Gitai & D. Porush (eds.), Future and Communication: The Role of Scientific and Technical Communication and Translation in Technology Development and Transfer, Bethesda, Md: International Scholars Publications, pp. 92-100 .
    • 46. 'And in his death they were not divided'. Midstream., January 1998
  • 1998
    • 47. 'Hebrew', Encyclopedia of European Languages, Oxford: Basil Blackwell
    • 48. 'Lexicographic function and the relation between supply and demand.' International Journal of Lexicography
    • 49. 'Side effect warnings in British medical package inserts: A discourse analytical approach', International Journal of Cognitive Ergonomics
  • In press
    • 50. 'On the syntax of the quantifier in Mishnaic Hebrew', Leshonenu [in Hebrew]
    • 51. 'Israeli language policy toward recent Soviet immigrants: The demise of a state monolingualism', in E. Olshtein (ed) Immigration, Language Acquisition and Patterns of Social Integration, Jerusalem: Magnes
    • 52. 'Hazard Information for Industrial Chemicals: The Development of a Policy in Israel', Israel Journal of Occupational Health
    • 53. 'Animate and inanimate in the Israeli Hebrew partitive', in S Sharvit (ed), Festschrift in honor of M Z Kaddari, Bar Ilan University Press. [in Hebrew]
    • 54. 'Golem: The making of a modern myth.' Symposium.

Radio Documentaries

  • 1. Tongue of Tongues, 50 minute documentary to mark the centenary of Spoken Hebrew, BBC Radio Three, November 9, 1989
  • 2. Golem! , 45 minute documentary, BBC Radio Three, December 1991

 

Last Updated: 10/22/08