page_title: Shlomo Morag
section_title: Academic career
hierarchical_section_title: Shlomo Morag / Academic career
caption_attribution_description: עברית: שלמה מורג בטקס קבלת פרס ביאליק, 1989 English: Shlomo Morag receiving Bialik Prize, 1989
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: Morag commenced studying at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1943. In 1955 he received his PhD for his thesis on the Hebrew pronunciation of the Yemenite Jews, which he wrote under the supervision of his teachers, Shelomo Dov Goitein, Hans Jakob Polotsky and Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai. Other teachers who influenced him were Joseph Klausner, David Baneth and Hanoch Yelon.
  He later joined the faculty of the Hebrew University and served as a professor at the department of Hebrew Language until he retired in 1994. Morag taught at Tel Aviv University and Bar-Ilan University as well.
  Morag's works focus on Semitic linguistics and specifically on the Hebrew language. He researched the oral traditions of Hebrew and dedicated a major part of his work to the oral traditions of the Yemenite Jews: the Yemenite Hebrew and the Yemenite Aramaic traditions.
caption: Shlomo Morag receiving the Bialik Prize
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