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Yona Sabar (Hebrew:יוֹנָה צַבָּר) (born 1938 in Zakho, Iraq) is a Kurdish Jewish scholar, linguist and researcher. He is currently professor of Hebrew at UCLA. He is a native speaker of Aramaic and has published more than 90 research articles about Jewish Neo-Aramaic and the folklore of the Kurdish Jews. Sabar was born in the town of Zakho in the Kurdish region of 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. ==Books== *''The Folk Literature of the Kurdistani Jews: An Anthology'', Yale University Press, 232 pp., 1982. ISBN 978-0-300-02698-6 *''A Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dictionary: Dialects of Amidya, Dihok, Nerwa and Zakho, Northwestern Iraq'', Harrassowitz, 337 pp., 2002. ISBN 978-3-447-04557-5 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yona Sabar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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