Yishai Neuman

Yishai Neuman is Lecturer in Modern Hebrew in the Judaic & Near Eastern Studies department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He also taught Modern and classical Hebrew language and linguistics as well as biblical Aramaic and Semitic linguistics in Israel and in France: at Ben-Gurion University in the Hebrew Language department (1997-2001), at INALCO (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris) in the department of Jewish and Hebraic studies (2003-2010), at the CNED (Centre National d’Enseignement à Distance) in the Hebrew/Arabic department (2003-2010), as well as biblical Aramaic and Semitic linguistics at the Hebraic studies section of the department of Orient et Monde Arabe in the Sorbonne Nouvelle University (Paris 3, 2007-2010) and at the department of Hebraic and Arabic studies in the Sorbonne University (Paris 4, 2009-2010).

Dr. Neuman’s specializations are Hebrew and general linguistics, and his Ph.D. deals with the question of The influence of writing on language. He has published two manuals of Modern Hebrew for the University edited by the CNED at Poitiers: Presse israélienne – Pratique de la langue (2005), Syntaxe hébraïque (2007), and has participated in the preparation of Grammaire hébraïque (2008), a manual of Hebrew grammar. His articles and reviews have appeared in Leshonenu la’am, Helkat lashon, Tsafon, Yod, Materia Giudaica, Liaisons-AIROE, as well as in several article collections and Festschrifts published in Israel and in Europe.




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