Linguistic and cultural studies on Arabic and Hebrew

This is a Festschrift for Professor Moshe Piamenta, a great linguist, scholar and researcher, who has contributed to the field of Arabic and Hebrew language and culture for more than six decades. The book is divided into two parts: studies on Arabic and Hebrew, concerning aspects of both the dialects and literary register of Arabic, including lexicological issues. Part II deals with culture as manifest in Jerusalem. Part I: H. Amit Kokhavi, Introducing Register Competence into Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language in Israeli Hebrew-Speaking Schools P. Behnstedt, Notes on the Arabic Dialects of Eastern North-Yemen (ilGawf, Sirwah, Marib, Bani Dabyan) J. Blau, Theory and Practice in Middle Arabic: Two Cases of Deficient Self-Knowledge Further articles by: A. Borg, O. Jastrow, M. Nevo, Y. Ratzaby, J. Rosenhouse, H. Shehadeh, A. Shivtiel, S. Shrayboym-Shivtiel, and R. Talmon Part II: M. Maoz, Jerusalem in the Modern Era: Political and Social Changes A. Cohen, A Tale of Two Women: A Jewish Endowment in the 19th Century Jerusalem Further articles by: A. Elad-Bouskila, and R. Snir