Sarah Bunin Benor

Expert in Jewish communities, identities and languages, sociolinguistics
  • Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion; Adjunct Professor of Linguistics
  • USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences
Office: (213) 765-2187

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