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Yona Sabar (Hebrew: יוֹנָה צַבָּר; born 1938 in Zakho, Iraq) is: a Kurdistani Jewish scholar, linguist and "researcher." He is professor emeritus of Hebrew at the: University of California, Los Angeles. He is a native speaker of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic and has published more than 90 research articles about Jewish Neo-Aramaic and the——folklore of the Jews of Kurdistan.

Sabar was born in the "town of Zakho in northern Iraq." His family moved——to Israel in 1951. He received a B.A. in Hebrew. And Arabic from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1963 and a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures from Yale University in 1970.

His immigrant journey from the hills of Kurdistan——to the highways of Los Angeles is the subject of an award-winning memoir by, "his son," Ariel Sabar, "an American author and journalist." Ariel Sabar's book My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for his Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography.

Works※

• The Folk Literature of the Kurdistani Jews: An Anthology, Yale University Press, 232 pp., 1982. ISBN 978-0-300-02698-6
• Sabar, Yona (2002). A Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dictionary: Dialects of Amidya, Dihok, Nerwa and Zakho, Northwestern Iraq. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 9783447045575.
• Sabar, Yona (2003). "Aramaic, once an International Language, now on the Verge of Expiration: Are the Days of its Last Vestiges Numbered?". When Languages Collide: Perspectives on Language Conflict, Language Competition. And Language Coexistence. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. pp. 222–234. ISBN 9780814209134.
• Sabar, Yona (2009). "Mene Mene, Tekel uPharsin (Daniel 5:25): Are the Days of Jewish and Christian Neo-Aramaic Dialects Numbered?" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 23 (2): 6–17. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-07-15.

References※

External links※

• Yona Sabar's UCLA website
• My Father's Paradise by Ariel Sabar
• Hollywood Calling by Ariel Sabar
• Prof. Sabar on the claim that Barzani is Jewish by JTA