Ora (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald
Prof Emerita at Bar Ilan University
BA, MA, Bar-Ilan University; PhD in Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin.
Taught at the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and, since 2012 lecturer at the Salti Institute for Ladino Studies until 2023.
Research areas: Hebrew Language and Ladino; wrote and edited many articles and books on these subjects.
Editor of LADINAR and edited Hebrew Linguistics in the past.
Member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language and correspondent of the Spanish Royal Academy. President of the Ladino National Academy in Israel and was president of the Hebrew Language Circle and the Language and Society Association.
Won the Landau Prize in 2015
Research field
General Linguistics
Language and Society
Ladino
Hebrew Morphology
Children Literature
Recent Publications and Articles
Schwarzwald, O. R. (2026). Semitic: Hebrew. In Conversion in Morphology: Theory and Typology (pp. 260-273). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198943990.003.0019
Refael, S., & Schwarzwald, O. (Eds.) (2026). Eventos en Israel y en Espana: con motivo de la incorporación de la La Akademia Nasionala del Ladino de Israel a la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (ASALE). La Akademia Nasionala del Ladino de Israel.
Schwarzwald, O. (2026). Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) in Israel in a Multilingual Society. In Multilingual Israel?: Old Ideologies and New Realities (pp. 248-262). Channel View Publications. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.35679061.19
שורצולד, א. (2026). גזירה בתחפושת של נטייה: [מתוך המדור: מורפולוגיה]. חלקת לשון, 58, 16-34. https://ilash.themakom.com/img/pdf/full/xelkat_lashon_58-2025-26.pdf
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