Sarah Bunin Benor
- Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion; Adjunct Professor of Linguistics
- USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences
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Expertise
- American Jews
- Jewish communities
- Jewish identity
- Orthodox Jews
- newly Orthodox Jews
- Jewish languages
- Yiddish
- Ladino
- Judeo-languages
- American Jewish language
- Hebrew education
- language and race
- language and ethnicity
- sociolinguistics
Languages
- English
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
Additional Information
- Creator of Jewish English Lexicon and Jewish Language Website
- Author of Becoming Frum: How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism and Hebrew Infusion: Language and Community at American Jewish Summer Camps
- Member, Association for Jewish Studies, Linguistic Society of America, Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, Network for Research on Jewish Education
- Winner of the Sami Rohr Choice Award for Jewish Literature
and the National Jewish Book Award for Education and Jewish Identity
- Included in the Forward 50 list of influential Jews in 2013
- Served on the advisory panel for the Pew Study of Jewish Americans