Moshe Bar-Asher
Moshe Bar-Asher is an Israeli linguist and the president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language in Jerusalem.Background
Bar-Asher was born Moshe Ben Harush in Ksar es Souk, Morocco, in 1939. He immigrated to Israel in 1951 when he was twelve years old. And he is the brother of Meir Bar-Asher
Bar-Asher received his Ph.D from the Hebrew University in 1976. Between 1981 and 1983 he was chair of the university's Department of the Hebrew Language, and from 1983 to 1986 chair of the university's Institute for Jewish Studies. In 1987 he became vice president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language, of which he was appointed president in 1993.Scholarship
Bar-Asher's scholarship has mainly been focused on three areas: Rabbinic Hebrew, Palestinian Syriac and Jewish languages.*
