page_title: Shlomo Morag
section_title: The Hebrew Language Tradition of the Yemenite Jews
hierarchical_section_title: Shlomo Morag / Works / The Hebrew Language Tradition of the Yemenite Jews
caption_attribution_description: עברית: שלמה מורג מקליט את הרבנים התימנים יוסף צדוק ויוסף עמר, במסגרת מפעל מסורות הלשון English: Shlomo Morag recording the Yemenite rabbis Yosef Zadok and Yosef Amar, for the Hebrew University Language Tradition Project
context_page_description: Shlomo Morag, also spelled Shelomo Morag, was an Israeli professor at the department of Hebrew Language at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Morag founded the Jewish Oral Traditions Research Center at the Hebrew University and served as the head of Ben Zvi Institute for the study of Jewish communities in the East for several years. He was a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and a fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research.
context_section_description: The base for this book, for which Morag received the Israel Prize, was his PhD thesis. In this book he describes the Yemenite Hebrew, the traditional reading of the bible and the Mishnah.
  Morag distinguishes the Yemenite tradition from other Hebrew oral traditions for several reasons:
  It is the only tradition that has a clear affinity to the Babylonian Hebrew tradition. This affinity is manifested in characteristics such as the use of one vowel whereas the Tiberian Hebrew tradition differentiate two vowels: patach and segol.
  It is the only oral tradition that regularly differentiate between the Biblical Hebrew tradition, which generally adheres to the Tiberian tradition (though influenced by the Babylonian tradition that was previously the accepted tradition in Yemen), and the Mishnaic Hebrew tradition, which is mostly Babylonian (but influenced from the Tiberian tradition of the Bible).
  This tradition maintains distinctions that were lost in other oral traditions, such as the Begadkefat phenomenon and the pronunciation of shva na.
  In his book, Morag describes the phonetic and phonological characteristics of the Yemenite tradition, and examines the effects of different Yemeni Arabic dialects on the oral traditions of Yemenite Jews from different areas of Yemen.
caption: Shlomo Morag recording two Yemenite rabbis for the Jewish Oral Traditions Research Center
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