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YESHIVA University School - a Symposium to Celebrate the work of Hayim Tawil. May 2010
YESHIVA University School - a Symposium to Celebrate the work of Hayim Tawil. May 2010
Hayim Tawil
Professor of Ancient Semitic Languages and
Human Rights Activist
Diver of linguistic jewels to be found at the bosom of history, tells us of the ancestral bond between ancient semitic tongues and grinds away at texts, phrases and words to offer a fascinating vision of the relationship between language and civilizations.
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Hayim Tawil received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and is professor of Hebrew language and literature at Yeshiva University in New York.
Tawil has published numerous articles in comparative Semitic lexicography and he is the author of the recently published An Akkadian Lexical Companion for Biblical Hebrew (2009).
He is also the author of Operation Esther: Opening the door for the Last Jews of Yemen, and in 2001, was nominated for the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights for his work in Yemen.