Academic Studies

1963-1967: Hebrew Language and Psychology, Bar Ilan University, B.A.

1967-1969: Hebrew Language, Bar Ilan University, M.A.

1966-1968: Education, Bar Ilan University, Teacher's Certificate.

1970-1973: Linguistics, the University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D.

Academic Work

1967-1969: Teaching Assistant, Bar Ilan University, Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages.

1970: Instructor.

1970-1973: Teaching Assistant and Teaching Instructor, the University of Texas at Austin, Department of Oriental and African Languages and Literature.

1974-1978: Lecturer, Bar Ilan University, Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages.

1978-1983: Senior Lecturer.

1983-1992: Associate Professor.

1992- : Full Professor

2005/6-7, 2008/9-2010: Head of the department

2012-: Professor Emerita

Editor

Hebrew Computational Linguistics, 8-15 (1974-1980), 20-21 (1983-1984).

Editing and updating of Chapter 8 (183-299) in E. Y. Kutscher's book, A History of the Hebrew Language, Magness-Brill 1982 (Editor: R. Kutscher).

Hadassah Kantor Jubilee Book: Language Research Papers, Ramat Gan, 1995, 10+262+xxi pp. (with Yitzhak Shlesinger).

Hebrew  Linguistics,  41-42 (1997; Special Issue: Language and Society in Israel), 70-74 (2015‑2020).

Rafael Nir Jubilee Book: Studies in Communication, Linguistics and Language Teaching, Jerusalem 2000, 438 pp. (with Shoshana Blum-Kulka and Elite Olshtain).

Talpiot College Annual, 11 1999-2000 (with Dov Shahor, Aharon Mundshain & Malka Muchnik).

Studies in Hebrew and Language Teaching in Honor of Ben Zion Fischler, Even Yehuda 2001, 292 pp. (with Rafael Nir).

Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of Societatis Linguisticae Europaeae Sodalicium Israëlense, No. 14, Ramat Gan 2002.

Proceedings of the 20th‑22nd Annual Meetings of the Israeli Linguistic Society, No. 16, Ramat Gan 2007.

Iggud: Selected Essays in Jewish Studies, Volume 3, Jerusalem 2007 (with Tamar Alexander, Ziva Amishai‑Maisels, Dan Laor, and Josef Tobi)

EHLL: Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, (with Geoffrey Khan (general editor), Shmuel Bolozky, Steven Fassberg, Gary Rendsburg, Aaron Rubin, Ora R. Schwarzwald, Tamar Zewi ). Brill, New York (2013)

Hebrew Linguistics 70-74 (2015-2020)_

Ladinar, 11 (2020), 12 (2021), 13 (2024), 14 (2025)

Las Ortografias del Ladino, La Akademia Nasionala del Ladino en Israel, Nahalieli, Tel Aviv 2021 (Hebrew part: Ktivey Haladino)

Moshe Halamish and Ora Schwarzwald (eds.), The Creativity and Traditions in Spain. Idra, Tel Aviv 2023.

Katja Šmid, Ora (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald and Ofra Tirosh-Becker (eds.), Mizmor Le-David: Studies in Jewish Languages, CSIC, Madrid 2023.

Shmuel Refael y Ora (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald (eds.), Eventos en Israel y en España, La Akademia Nasionala del Ladino de Israel, Israel 2026.

Member of editorial boards

Hebrew Linguistics (Balshanut Ivrit; Formerly Balshanut Ivrit Hofshit) (Bar Ilan University; Editor of issues 8-15 (1974-1979), 20-21 (1983-1984), 41-42 (1997)

Pe'amim (Ben Zvi Institute)

Dapim (Mofet Center)

El Presente (Gaon Center, Ben Gurion University)

Israel Studies in Language and Society (e-Journal)

The Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics (Brill)

Journal of Jewish Languages (Brill)

HaIvrit (The Academy of the Hebrew Language; formerly: Leshonenu La'am)

Ben HaShurot (Shaanan College)

Role in Special Committees

1966-1983, 1996-2003: Advisory committee of the Israel Association of Applied Linguistics

1995- : Advisory committee of Hebrew Language Teaching, The Ministry of Education in Israel; chairperson since 2000

1996-2000: Advisory committee of the Center for the Study of Language Policy and Language Planning, Bar Ilan University

1997-2002: Advisory committee of the Planning of Hebrew Teaching, The Ministry of Education in Israel

2001-2007: President of the Israeli Chapter of the European Linguistic Society; changed into President of the Israeli Linguistic Society

2002-2003: Advisory committee on Hebrew Language Teaching in Teachers' Colleges

2004‑2007: President of the Israeli Association for the Study of Language and Society

2005‑: Advisory Member in The Academy of the Hebrew Language: Full member from 2011

2008-: Editor in the Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics

2011: Head of the committee of Linguistic Terminology of The Academy of the Hebrew Language

2015-: Correspondent member of La Real Academía Española for Judeo-Spanish

2020-: President of the Academy of the Ladino Language in Israel

Graduate Supervision

MA Theses

1.  Malka Muchnik, Expressions of Tense, Mood and Aspect in Modern Hebrew, 1986
2.  Zippora Rubin, Incomlete Sentences in Fiction and Drama, 1989
3.  Ester Adamit, Past and Future Inflection in Modern Hebrew: Morphological and Syntactic Aspects 1995
4.  Moshe Echshtein, Change and Tendency in the Hebrew of the State of Israel, 1997
5.  Orit Or, Distinctive Syntactic Features in the Language of Boys from South and North Tel-Aviv, 1998
6.  Nivi Gomel, Judeo-Spanish in Hebrew Literature, 1998
7.  Dalia Baruch, The Morphological, Semantic, Syntactic, Pragmatic and Stylistic Aspects of the Use of Pronoun in "Melkomiya Yefeifiya" by S. Yizhar, 2000
8.  Ofra Malka Birenboim, Proper Names of Secular and Religious Children Born between 1983-1992: Meaning and Form, 2000
9.  Sagit Rosenberg-Cohen, Form and Meaning of Reduplicative Constructions in Hebrew Words, 2002
10. Vered Bar Sela, The Morphological Formation of Brand Names and TheirSemantic Transparency, 2002
11. Alona Cohen, Differences in Understanding, Utilizing, Remembering, and Internalizing Hebrew Idioms Resulting from Different Teaching Methods in Junior High School, 2006

PhD Dissertations

1.  Malka Muchnik, Language Differences between Men and Women in Hebrew Journals, 1992
2.  Dalia Cohen-Gross, The Morphological-Syllabic Structure of Modern Hebrew, 1997
3.  Rachel Schiff-Roth, The Influence of Morphological, Phonological and Orthographic Characteristics of Words on Outloud Reading Precision of Second, Fourth and Sixth Graders, 1998
4.  Orit Or, Case-Study: Covering the Intifada in the Israeli Press, 2003
5.  Ephrat Stein, Meta-Language in Modern Hebrew Literature, 2002
6.  Rakefet Dilmon, Linguistic Differences between Lie and Truth in Spoken Hebrew, 2004
7.  Chagit Avioz, Modern Hebrew Number and Possessive Inflection in Nouns, 2004
8.  Tami Yair, Language Characteristics of Criminals in Prison and Rehabilitation, 2004
9.  Zipora Shapira, The Hebrew Language in Tel Aviv between 1909-1935 as Reflected in Advertisements, 2004
10. Nivi Gomel, Judeo-Spanish Hebrew Teaching Textbooks in the Ottoman Empire: Methods and Trends 1823-1935, 2006 (with Shmuel Refael)
11. Ayelet Yefet, Language and Style in the Writings of Datya Ben-Dor, 2007
12. Alona Cohen, Irregular Usage of Idioms in Contemporary Hebrew Literature, 2010
13. Dror Ben-Arié, The Linguistic Theory of Abraham de Balmes according to his Treatise "Miqne Abram" (Peculium Abrae), 2010 (with Cyril Aslanov)
14. Aliza Lazerson, Literacy in Youth Culture: An Analysis of Language Uses and Literacy of Young Adults in an Israeli Rap Site, 2012
15. Rachele Liberman, The Passive Utterance in Translations from English to Hebrew, 2014
16.    Ruvik Rosenthal, The Reflection of the Military Hierarchy in the Language of the Israeli Army, 2015
17. Michal Eliyahu, "Aki Yerushalayim": A Ladino Periodical as a Cultural Agent of the Sephardic Culture and Language, 2025 (with Shmuel Refael)