Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann

Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann

  • Biography/ Background

    Chair Prof. Dr Dr Ghil'ad Zuckermann's email addresses: gzuckermann@gmail.com ; gzuckermann@middlebury.edu ; gzuckermann@cantab.net ; gz@ling-phil.oxon.org ; ghilad.zuckermann@flinders.edu.au

    Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann, D.Phil. (Oxon.), Ph.D. (Cantab.) (titular), is a tenured Full Professor (Level E) of Linguistics at the University of Adelaide. He is an Endangered Languages Chair, so endangered that he is the only such chair in Australia. Zuckermann is not only a linguist but also language revivalist, public intellectual, hyperpolyglot, best-selling author, accomplished expert witness (e.g. IP trademarks and brand names) and keynoter sought after all over the globe.

    Prof. Ghil'ad Zuckermann -- a.k.a. 'Sir Galahad' (Oxford), 'Giladiator' (UT Austin) and 'Zucchi' / 'Zucky' (UWC Adriatic) -- is listed among Australia's top 30 Living Legends of Research (2024) by 'The Australian' newspaper.

    In 2023 Professor Zuckermann was awarded the Rubinlicht Prize for his contribution to Yiddish scholarship. 

    He serves as the Chair of the Jury for the Jeonju International Awards for Promoting Intangible Cultural Heritage, South Korea.

    Prof. Dr Dr Zuckermann is a leading international expert in the following 15 fields:

    (1) Revivalistics, a global, comparative, trans-disciplinary field of enquiry surrounding language reclamation (e.g. Hebrew, Barngarla (Parnkalla) Aboriginal language of Eyre Peninsula (e.g. Port Lincoln, Port Augusta),South Australia; Nharangga (Nurrunga), Yorke Peninsula, South Australia; Bayoongoo (Baiyungu), Coral Bay, Western Australia), revitalization (e.g. Maori, New Zealand; Iai, Kanak, New Caledonia; Adnyamathanha, South Australia) and reinvigoration (e.g. Irish; Welsh);

    (2) Hebrew (Biblical, Mishnaic, Medieval, Maskilic, Modern), Israeli language, Jewish languages, Semitic linguistics;

    (3) Language in culture and society (including nationhood, religion, politics, identity), Cross-Cultural Communication, sociolinguistics, cultural contact as manifested in language;

    (4) Languages/dialects and wellbeing/health (including for Indigenous and minority people);

    (5) AI in the service of social good;

    (6) Forensic linguistics, lexicology and corpus lexicography (including phonetics, glossolalia (speaking in tongues), trademarks, brand names and Intellectual Property - acting as Expert Witness in courts all over the globe);

    (7) Contact linguistics, linguistic evolution, hybridity, multiple causation, cross-fertilization, horizontal gene transfer in languages;

    (8) Lexical expansion, camouflaged borrowing (including phono-semantic matching), e.g. in Mandarin Chinese, language planning, language academies;

    (9) English as the World's Language;

    (10) Israel, Jewish Studies, Middle East, the language of politics and the politics of language;

    (11) Historical linguistics;

    (12) Native Tongue Title (proposed compensation for language loss), language rights;

    (13) Intangible cultural heritage;

    (14) Alternative language teaching methods, mnemonics;

    (15) Internationalization of China's linguistics.

    Prof. Dr Dr Zuckermann is elected member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) (since 2014), Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL), Academy of Oriental Scholars (Shanghai) and European Association of Jewish Studies.

    He serves as Editorial Board member of the Journal of Language Contact. He has been Consultant and Expert Witness in (corpus) lexicography and (forensic) linguistics, in court cases all over the globe.

    Professor Zuckermann served as President of the Australian Association for Jewish Studies (2017-2023) and President of the Australasian Association for Lexicography (AUSTRALEX) (2013-2015). 

    Professor Dr Dr Zuckermann is also Professor (Level E) at Flinders University (Adelaide), Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education, Australian Catholic University (Sydney) and Visiting Professor at Middlebury College (Vermont, USA).

    Some articles featuring Professor Zuckermann:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dv50l1 (BBC World News: People Fixing the World: Bringing Dead Languages Back to Life, 2023)

    https://podcasts.apple.com/my/podcast/bringing-dead-languages-back-to-life/id1177590377?i=1000593599718 (BBC World News: People Fixing the World: Bringing Dead Languages Back to Life, 2023)

    https://www.jns.org/jewish-israeli-culture/languages/23/8/8/309057/

    https://www.jta.org/2023/09/05/ideas/israeli-hebrew-didnt-kill-yiddish-as-a-new-exhibit-in-nyc-shows-it-gave-it-a-new-place-to-nest

    http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190320-the-man-bringing-dead-languages-back-to-life

    https://blog.linguistlist.org/fund-drive/featured-linguist-ghilad-zuckermann/


    Professor Zuckermann's Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Language Revival: Securing the Future of Endangered Languages (with R. Amery), has attracted thousands of students from 190 countries. It is available for free right now: https://www.edx.org/course/language-revival-securing-future-adelaidex-lang101x 

    See also:

    http://blogs.adelaide.edu.au/adelaidex/2017/09/26/celebrating-linguistic-diversity-a-qa-with-ghilad-zuckermann/ 
    https://www.adelaide.edu.au/news/news79582.html
    http://blogs.adelaide.edu.au/adelaidex/2015/06/23/new-adelaidex-mooc-explores-how-to-revive-endangered-languages/
    https://www.facebook.com/Revivalistics
    https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2014/september/1409493600/anna-goldsworthy/voices-land
    http://vimeo.com/channels/357807/44019045
    https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/nitv-news/article/2017/02/21/could-language-revival-cure-diabetes
    https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/starting-scratch-aboriginal-group-reclaims-lost-language-180626082306196.html
    https://www.jewishnews.net.au/ghilads-indigenous-language-game-changer/79545
    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/linguafranca/2012-10-20/4320276
    http://www.adelaide.edu.au/adelaidean/issues/45921/news45962.html
    http://www.adelaide.edu.au/news/news51861.html
    http://www.whyallanewsonline.com.au/story/1503840/reviving-barngarla-language/?cs=2180

    He has published in English, Israeli (Revived Hebrew), Italian, Yiddish, Spanish, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Arabic. His seminal book Revivalistics: From the Genesis of Israeli to Language Reclamation in Australia and Beyond was published in 2020 by Oxford University Press, New York (ISBN 9780199812790 (pbk), ISBN 9780199812776 (hbk); https://global.oup.com/academic/product/revivalistics-9780199812790 ; Special 30% Discount Promo Code: AAFLYG6). His revolutionary bestseller book Israelit Safa Yafa (Israeli - A Beautiful Language) (ISBN: 978-965-13-1963-1) was published in 2008 by Am Oved (Tel Aviv), and his book Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew (ISBN: 1-4039-1723-X) came out with Palgrave Macmillan in 2003.  He published a book in Chinese entitled A Study of Multisourced Neologization in 2021 with East China Normal University Press (ECNU) Shanghai (ISBN 9787567598935, 420 pages): https://shop502733.m.youzan.com/wscgoods/detail/3ep8pxijft9xx

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZPjdNaLCho

     

    SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE:

    Founder and Organizer of the Adelaide Language Festival (2013-23), e.g. 16-17 May 2014,  
    http://arts.adelaide.edu.au/linguistics/alf/, and 29 November 2017, https://www.lcnau2017.org/adelaide-languages-festival). http://www.adelaide.edu.au/news/news70242.html

    Member of the Indigenous Research Committee (chaired by the Pro Vice-Chancellor Research Strategy) (2013-14)

    Member of the Research Committee, School of Humanities (2013-15)

    Acting Head, Department of Linguistics (2013-14, 2019)

    Undergraduate Coordinator in Linguistics (2013-14)

    Post-Graduate Coordinator in Linguistics (2012)

    Honours Coordinator in Linguistics (2011-17)

    Convener of the Adelaide Linguistics Research Colloquium (2012-17)

    Co-Convener of the Adelaide Truth and Reconciliation Colloquium (2013-18)

    Regular contributor to Adelaide University international collaboration, e.g. with Chinese tertiary institutions such as Shanghai Jiao Tong University, East China Normal University, Shanghai International Studies University.

    Host of various global delegations to the University of Adelaide, e.g. from Brazil, Canada, China and Israel.

     

    BRIEF BIO/BIOGRAPHY:

    After studying at the international school United World College (UWC) of the Adriatic (Collegio del Mondo Unito dell'Adriatico; Duino, Trieste) (1987-89), Ghil'ad Zuckermann was selected for the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Programme for Outstanding Students of Tel Aviv University, where he studied philosophy, psychology, classics, literature, law and mathematics, and specialized in linguistics, receiving his M.A. (summa cum laude) from the Department of Linguistics in 1997. As Scatcherd European Scholar of the University of Oxford and Denise Skinner Graduate Scholar of St Hugh's College, Oxford, he gained his D.Phil. (Oxon.) in 2000. In 1996-1998, he served as the elected President of the Oxford University L'Chaim Society, hosting scholars such as Stephen Hocking (24 February 1998).

    In 2000-2004 he was Gulbenkian Research Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, and was affiliated with the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Studies, University of Cambridge.

    His other books include Engaging – A Guide to Interacting Respectfully and Reciprocally with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, and their Arts Practices and Intellectual Property (2015: http://www.zuckermann.org/guide.html), Dictionary of the Barngarla Aboriginal Language of Eyre Peninsula, South Australia (2018: https://www.barngarlalanguage.com/dictionary), Barngarlidhi Manoo ('Speaking Barngarla Together') (2019, Second Edition: 2021), Mangiri Yarda ('Healthy Country': Barngarla Wellbeing and Nature) (2021, Second Edition: 2023) and Wardlada Mardinidhi (‘Bush Healing’: Barngarla Plant Medicines) (2023).

    He contributed three chapters to the Israeli version of the book Tingo (Tel Aviv: Keren, 2011) and edited Burning Issues in Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (Cambridge Scholars, 2012), Jewish Language Contact (special issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language 226, 2014), and Endangered Words, Signs of Revival (AustraLex, 2014). 

    Prof. Zuckermann has taught various undergraduate and graduate courses in four continents, e.g. at the University of Cambridge (Faculty of Oriental Studies, now known as Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies) (2000-2004), The University of Queensland (Associate Professor 2006-11), National University of Singapore (2001-2), Middlebury College (Vermont, USA, 2019, 2021), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2017), University of Miami, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University (Košice, Slovakia),  The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Shanghai Customs College (2011), Shanghai International Studies University (2010-13), East China Normal University.

    He has been research fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation's Study and Conference Center (Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy), Weizmann Institute of Science, Research Centre for Linguistic Typology (RCLT) (Institute for Advanced Study, La Trobe University), Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (University of Texas at Austin), Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyuujo (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo), Mahidol University (Bangkok), and Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). In 2015 he was elected Rex J Lipman Fellow at St Peter's College, Adelaide.

    He has been Consultant and Expert Witness in forensic linguistics, corpus lexicography and intellectual property in court cases all over the globe, e.g. Trade Marks / Brand Names: http://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/single/2017/2017fca0823

    Professor Zuckermann has held 5-year competitive fellowships from both the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (2017-2021) and the Australian Research Council (ARC) (2007-2011).

    He has held a range of other prestigious fellowships, competitive project grants and scholarships, including Project 211 Fellowship (China) (2010), "Shanghai Oriental Scholar" Professorial Fellowship (2011), British Academy Research Grant, Braginsky Centre Fellowship at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Memorial Foundation of Jewish Culture Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harold Hyam Wingate Scholarship, British Chevening Scholarship and Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Scholarship. 

    Professor Zuckermann has organized various international conferences such as the first Australian Workshop on Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (AWAAL) (11-13 September 2009, held at the Brisbane Writers Festival, State Library of Queensland, and at the University of Queensland, attracting scholars from 18 countries); Cross-Fertlization in Language and Genetics (Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 21 January 2013); Hybridity in Israel (Beit Leyvik, Tel Aviv, 29 January 2013); AUSTRALEX 2013: Endangered Words and Signs of Revival (University of Adelaide, 25-28 July 2013), and AAJS (University of Adelaide, 9-11 February 2014; Flinders University, 12-14 February 2023): http://www.aajs.org.au/.  

    Professor Zuckermann has been consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), Oxford University Press (OUP), Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies (University of Miami), and Leyvik House, The Israeli Center for Yiddish Culture, Tel Aviv. He is Editorial Board Member of Journal of Language Contact, Jewish Contemporary Review, Mizrekh: Jewish Studies in the Far East, Israeli Journal of Humor Research, The Open Applied Linguistics Journal; Scientific Committee Member of Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE); Academic Committee Member of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism (YIISA); Thought Leader of Creativity Australia, Melbourne; and Advisory Board Member of Gifted Speech.

    He has been referee for Yale University Press (YUP), Cambridge University Press (CUP), Oxford University Press (OUP), Languages in Contrast, Australian Journal of Linguistics, Balshanut Ivrit (Hebrew Linguistics), Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, International Journal of Lexicography, CamLing (Conference in Language Research, University of Cambridge), Israel Science Foundation (ISF), The Leverhulme Trust, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP), and the Academic Research Fund of Singapore's National Institute of Education (NIE). In 2008 he was President of the Jury of the BIFF Interfaith Award for Promoting Humanitarian Values, Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF).

    He has delivered hundreds of keynote speeches, plenary conference papers and invited public lectures all over the globe.

    Professor Zuckermann has featured in dozens of TV programmes in the United Kingdom (e.g. BBC2), Israel (e.g. Channel 1, Channel 2, Channel 10, Channel 23, YES, YES DOCO), New Zealand (e.g. TVNZ Marae Investigates) and Australia (e.g. SBS Living Black, ABC1 Midday Report, NITV Evening News), and in hundreds of radio programmes in Australia (e.g. three ABC Lingua Franca programmes, an ABC Encounter programme with David Rutledge, an ABC Big Ideas panel broadcast on 15 April 2010, an ABC Life Matters interview with Richard Aedy on 19 July 2011, numerous SBS interviews in Israeli, Yiddish, Italian and English, 6PR Perth, 3ZZZ Melbourne, Noongar Radio Perth, CAAMA Alice Springs, The Wire, Radio Adelaide, Cairns, Brisbane...), Israel (e.g. Galey Tzahal, Reshet Alef, Reshet Bet, Kol Israel), UK (e.g. BBC World Service), Spain (e.g. Radio Sefarad), New Zealand, South Africa and Germany.

    Short clips from BBC interviews of Professor Zuckermann by Stephen Fry (on Fry's Planet Word) can be found at http://vimeo.com/channels/357807/44019045 (Hebrew Revival) and http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00ksqzk (The Politics of Language). 

    He has featured in thousands of newspaper articles in the United Kingdom (e.g. Reuters), USA (e.g. The Forward), Canada (e.g. Globe and Mail), Israel (e.g. Haaretz, Maariv, Yediot Aharonot, Jerusalem Post, English Haaretz, Ynet, NRG, Time Out, Makor Rishon, Erev Erev, HaIr), the Netherlands (e.g. Trouw), Spain (e.g. Terra), Sweden (e.g. Språktidningen), New Zealand (e.g. Waikato Times, Otago Daily Times,  New Zealand Jewish Chronicle), Germany (Jüdische Zeitung), Norfolk Island and Australia (e.g. The Australian (1) (2), Courier Mail, Australian Jewish News, Rhapsody, E-ton, Galus Australis).

    In 1993-6 Professor Zuckermann taught preparatory courses for various psychometric examinations (e.g. GMAT) at Kidum Institute, Tel Aviv, and co-authored four books in this field. Other interests include opera (in particular Puccini, Verdi, Donizetti and Mozart), film, photography, constrained literature, poetry, paleo-anthropology and human migration, cultural immersion through travel, and world politics.

    Further information can be found at http://www.zuckermann.org/

    https://www.flinders.edu.au/flinders/app_templates/staffpages/view/file_view.cfm?file=FD3F805CC3E74350B5F752347D0CA3E2-32004

    http://www.adelaide.edu.au/adelaidean/issues/45921/news45962.html 

    https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190320-the-man-bringing-dead-languages-back-to-life

     

    Chair Prof. Dr Dr Ghil'ad Zuckermann's email addresses: gzuckermann@gmail.com ; gzuckermann@middlebury.edu ; gzuckermann@cantab.net ; gz@ling-phil.oxon.org ; ghilad.zuckermann@flinders.edu.au

  • Qualifications

    Chair Prof. Dr Dr Ghil'ad Zuckermann's email addresses: gzuckermann@gmail.com ; gzuckermann@middlebury.edu ; gzuckermann@cantab.net ; gz@ling-phil.oxon.org ; ghilad.zuckermann@flinders.edu.au

    D.Phil. (Oxon.), University of Oxford, England, United Kingdom, conferred on 25 November 2000.

    Ph.D. (Cantab.) (titular), University of Cambridge, England, United Kingdom, conferred on 13 December 2003.

    M.A. (summa cum laude), Tel Aviv University, Israel, 1997.

    I.B., United World College of the Adriatic (Collegio del Mondo Unito dell'Adriatico), Duino, Trieste, Italy, 1989.

    Professor Zuckermann is a hyperpolyglot, fluent in a plethora of languages.

    Leadership: Professor Zuckermann has led various organizations such as the Australian Association for Jewish Studies (AAJS), Australasian Association of Lexicography (AustraLex) and Oxford University L'Chaim Society.

    Grants: Professor Zuckermann has received millions of dollars in research fellowships and grants, including two distinct 5-year ones from both the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (2017-2021) and the Australian Research Council (ARC) (2007-2011).

    Publications: Professor Zuckermann has published hundreds of peer-reviewed articles and bestseller books including by Oxford University Press and Palgrave Macmillan.

    Teaching/Supervision: Professor Zuckermann has taught dozens of courses in linguistics, Hebrew and the Humanities. He has supervised dozens of postdoctoral fellows, Ph.D. and M.A. students.

     

    LEARNED SOCIETIES

    Australian Association for Jewish Studies (AAJS) (Elected President thrice 2017-23)

    Australasian Association for Lexicography (AUSTRALEX) (Elected President, 2013-15)

    Academy of Oriental Scholars (Shanghai) (Elected Fellow)

    Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) (Elected Fellow)

    Foundations for Endangered Languages (FEL) (Elected Board Member)

    Institute for Communication in Health Care, Australian National University (Elected Member)

    The International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry (Elected Board Member)

    European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) (Elected Member)

    Centre for Research on Language Change (CRLC)

    Linguistic Society of America (LSA)

    The Philological Society

    Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)

    International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)

    Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics (SPCL)

    Australian Linguistic Society (ALS)

    National Association of Professors of Hebrew (NAPH)

    Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée (AILA)

    Association for Jewish Studies (AJS)

     

    Chair Prof. Dr Dr Ghil'ad Zuckermann's email addresses: gzuckermann@gmail.com ; gzuckermann@middlebury.edu ; gzuckermann@cantab.net ; gz@ling-phil.oxon.org ; ghilad.zuckermann@flinders.edu.au

  • Awards & Achievements

    Chair Prof. Dr Dr Ghil'ad Zuckermann's email addresses: gzuckermann@gmail.com ; gzuckermann@middlebury.edu ; gzuckermann@cantab.net ; gz@ling-phil.oxon.org ; ghilad.zuckermann@flinders.edu.au

    §  2024 Listed among Australia's top 30 Living Legends of Research (2024) by The Australian newspaper.

    §  2023 Awarded the Rubinlicht Prize for contribution to Yiddish scholarship.

     

    §  2024-present  Chair of the Jury, Jeonju International Awards for Promoting Intangible Cultural Heritage, South Korea.

     

    §  2017-2021 National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Project Grant APP1129796 (with Prof. Alex Brown): Examining the impact of language reclamation on social and emotional well being among the Barngarla.

     

    §  2007-2011 Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Fellowship DP0770414: Language Revival in the Middle East: The Genesis of Israeli ('Modern Hebrew') – Lessons for the Revival of No-Longer Spoken Australian Languages.

     

    §  2017-2023 President (elected three consecutive times), Australian Association for Jewish Studies (AAJS).

     

    § 2014 Elected Fellow, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).

     

    §  2013-2015 Visiting Professorial Scientist, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. 

    §  2013-2015 Elected President, Australasian Association for Lexicography (AUSTRALEX).

     

    §  2012-2013 Special Guest, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

     

    §  2011 Oriental Scholar Distinguished Professorial Fellow, Shanghai, China.

     

    §  2010 Project 211 Distinguished Professorial Fellowship, China.

     

    §  2002 British Academy Research Grant. 

     

    §  2000-2001 Memorial Foundation of Jewish Culture Postdoctoral Fellowship (New York).

     

    §  2001 Dorot Postdoctoral Fellowship.

     

    §  1997-2000 Scatcherd European Scholarship, University of Oxford.

     

    §  1997-2000 Denise Skinner Graduate Scholarship, St Hugh’s College, Oxford.

     

    §  1997-2000 Memorial Foundation of Jewish Culture Doctoral Scholarship (New York).

     

    §  1997-8 Harold Hyam Wingate Scholarship (London).

     

    §  1996-1997 British Chevening Scholarship, British Foreign Office.

     

    §  1993-1997 Scholarship at the Interdisciplinary Programme for Fostering Excellence (later known as the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Programme for Outstanding Students), Tel Aviv University.

     

    OTHER MERIT AWARDS / RESEARCH GRANTS

    2022-2023: Bayoongoo Aboriginal Language Reclamation (Western Australia), First Languages Australia.

    2013-2016: Barngarla Aboriginal Language Reclamation, Aboriginal Language Support (ILS), Office For The Arts (OFTA), Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sports, Australian Government.

    2013-2015: Traditional Cultural Expressions in Aboriginal Australia and Torres Straits Islands, Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sports, Australian Government. PUBLISHED: ENGAGING – A Guide to Interacting Respectfully and Reciprocally with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, and their Arts Practices and Intellectual Property: http://www.zuckermann.org/guide.html

    2014-2015: Online Learning Space: Barngarla Language, Aboriginal Language Support (ILS) New Media, Ministry for the Arts, Attorney-General’s Department, Australian Government.

    2012-2013: Barngarla Aboriginal Language Reclamation, Aboriginal Language Support (ILS), Office For The Arts (OFTA), Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sports, Australian Government.

    2012-2015: Mobile Language Team, Aboriginal Language Support (ILS), Office For The Arts (OFTA), Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sports, Australian Government. (1,050,000 AUD) (Collaborator)

    2012-2013: Barngarla Aboriginal Language Reclamation, Aboriginal Language Support (ILS), Office For The Arts (OFTA), Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sports, Australian Government.

    2012-2013: The University of Adelaide Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Grant: Revivalistics.

    2011-2012: The University of Adelaide Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Grant: Revivalistics.

    2010: The University of Queensland Travel Award for International Collaborative Research for 2010 – Category 2.

    1999: Taylor Institute Grant (University of Oxford) – for academic work at Stanford University and at the University of California at Berkeley.

    1998: Barbinder Watson Grant (St Hugh’s College) – for studying advanced Yiddish at Vilnius University.

    1997: Ian Karten Fund (London).

    1996-1997: Porter School of Culture Award, Tel Aviv University.

    1996-1997: Outstanding Students Grant for Special Projects, Tel Aviv University.

    1995-1996: Adi Lautman Scholarship, Tel Aviv University.

    1995: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Scholarship, German Foreign Ministry – to undertake a 2-month course in advanced German at the Goethe Institute in Germany.

    1987-1989: United World College (Adriatic) Scholarship for Israel.

     

    Chair Prof. Dr Dr Ghil'ad Zuckermann's email addresses: gzuckermann@gmail.com ; gzuckermann@middlebury.edu ; gzuckermann@cantab.net ; gz@ling-phil.oxon.org ; ghilad.zuckermann@flinders.edu.au

  • Teaching Interests

    Chair Prof. Dr Dr Ghil'ad Zuckermann's email addresses: gzuckermann@gmail.com ; gzuckermann@middlebury.edu ; gzuckermann@cantab.net ; gz@ling-phil.oxon.org ; ghilad.zuckermann@flinders.edu.au

    Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann has convened and taught a plethora of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, for example the following:

    NEW COURSES DEVELOPED, CONVENED AND TAUGHT:

    LING 1101: The Wonder of Language: an intro to Linguistics: https://www.adelaide.edu.au/course-outlines/004435/1/sem-1/2022/

    LING 1102: Introduction to Language in Culture and Society: https://www.adelaide.edu.au/course-outlines/004439/1/

    LING 3017: Revivalistics, Cross-Fertilization & Wellbeing: https://www.adelaide.edu.au/course-outlines/108163/1/sem-2/

    edX MOOC (Massive Open Online Course): Language Revival: Securing the Future of Endangered Languages

    LING 2049: Languages in the 21st Century: Cultural Contact and New Words

    LING 2037: Languages in a Global Society

    LING 5000: Language Planning

    LING 2038: Cross Cultural Communication (CCC)

    LING 2047: Semantics

    LING 2050: Revival Linguistics

     

    Other Courses Taught and Convened:

    LING 1007: Enquiring Mind Core Course, Faculty of Arts

    LING 2046: Morphology and Syntax

    LING 2040: Phonology and Phonetics

    LING 5004: Language and Meaning

    Foundations of Linguistics

    Language and Ethnography of Communication

    Adelaide Linguistics Research Colloquium 

     

    Professor Zuckermann has supervised numerous visiting professors, postdoctoral fellows, Ph.D. students and M.A. students at the University of Adelaide, for example the following:

    • Professor CHEN Yan (Yancheng Teachers University). POSTDOC COMPLETED WITH DISTINCTION.
    • Professor YAO Chunlin (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing; Tianjin; formerly Hebei United University, Tangshan). POSTDOC COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY.
    • Dr XU Jia (Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai). POSTDOC COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY.
    • Professor JIN Zhiru (Jilin Normal University). VISITING PROFESSORSHIP COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY.
    • Dr Penelope CASHMAN: Phonetics Applied to Operatic Lyric Diction and Music Pedagogy. PH.D. COMPLETED WITH DISTINCTION.
    • Dr Yosep KROON: The Grammar of Solor – Lamaholot, an Endangered Language of Eastern Indonesia. PH.D. COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY.
    • Dr Afifa Eve KHEIR FERRO: Code Mixing in Arabic and Israeli. PH.D. COMPLETED WITH DISTINCTION.
    • Dr YANG Jie (Jessica), Language Planning in China and Australia. PH.D. COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY. 
    • Zaid Shihab ALAMIRI: Linguistic Approach to the Quran. M.A. COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY.
    • Michael RUAN Xiang: Phono-Semantic Matching in Hebrew and Chinese. M.A. COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY.
    • Hend ALBALAWI: Changes in the Balawiy Bedouin Arabic Dialect of Saudi Arabia, 1985-2015. M.A. COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY.
    • WANG Shiyu: Chinese Script. M.A. COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY.

    Other research students supervised by Professor Zuckermann at the University of Adelaide include the following:

    • Divon LAN: Co-evolution of Language and Genes in the Trans Fly Region in Papua New Guinea. COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY.
    • Mario PILLA: B.A. Advanced. COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY.
    • Fei STOKES: B.A. Advanced. COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY.
    • Beth PEARTREE: B.A. Advanced. COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY.
    • Ammon STEPHENSON: Sociolinguistic Analysis of Quenya, Klingon and Na’vi. HONOURS THESIS COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY.
    • Lur ALGHURABI: The Barngarla Aboriginal Language. COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY.
    • Isabelle MAY: Leaked Truths: Australian political discourse in response to the Nauru files. COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY.
    • Cassie TAYLOR: The social media platform Snapchat and its role in forming structural lines of communication for crisis management. COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY.
    • Sebastian HARRISS (Eton College, England): Aboriginal Language Reclamation. COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY.

    Other courses taught by Professor Zuckermann include:

    • Language Revival
    • Language Contact
    • Lexical Expansion
    • Borrowing
    • Semantics
    • Linguistic Research Writing
    • How to be both Original and Scholarly 
    • Jewish Thinking
    • Antisemitism
    • Israel
    • Hebrew Linguistics through Israeli Songs
    • Psychometric Testing
    • Trademarks
    • Forensic Linguistics 
    • Foreign Language Teaching 
    • Mnemonics
    • Slang
    • Israeli Language
    • Hebrew
    • Italian
    • Arabic
    • English for Academic Purposes
    • Yiddish
    • German
    • Morse Code
    • Classical Greek
    • Barngarla Aboriginal Language  
    • Constrained Literature
    • Logology
    • Hybridity and Multiple Causation

    Professor Zuckermann has served as Post-Graduate Coordinator (PGC), Head of the Linguistics Department (July-December 2013, July-December 2016, December 2018-June 2019), Undergraduate Coordinator and Linguistics Honours Coordinator.

     

    Chair Prof. Dr Dr Ghil'ad Zuckermann's email addresses: gzuckermann@gmail.com ; gzuckermann@middlebury.edu ; gzuckermann@cantab.net ; gz@ling-phil.oxon.org ; ghilad.zuckermann@flinders.edu.au

  • Research Interests
    Chair Prof. Dr Dr Ghil'ad Zuckermann's email addresses: gzuckermann@gmail.com ; gzuckermann@middlebury.edu ; gzuckermann@cantab.net ; gz@ling-phil.oxon.org ; ghilad.zuckermann@flinders.edu.au
    Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann's research interests include the following:

    (1) Revivalistics, a global, comparative, trans-disciplinary field of enquiry surrounding language reclamation (e.g. Hebrew, Barngarla (Parnkalla) Aboriginal language of Eyre Peninsula (e.g. Port Lincoln, Port Augusta),South Australia; Nharangga (Narungga), Yorke Peninsula, South Australia; Bayoongoo (Baiyungu), Coral Bay, Western Australia), revitalization (e.g. Maori, New Zealand; Iai, Kanak, New Caledonia; Adnyamathanha, South Australia) and reinvigoration (e.g. Irish; Welsh);

    (2) Hebrew (Biblical, Mishnaic, Medieval, Maskilic, Modern), Israeli language, Jewish languages, Semitic linguistics;

    (3) Language in culture and society (including nationhood, religion, politics, identity), Cross-Cultural Communication, sociolinguistics, cultural contact as manifested in language;

    (4) Languages/dialects and wellbeing/health (including for Indigenous and minority people);

    (5) AI in the service of social good, Digital Humanities, Culturomics, Tarbutomics;

    (6) Forensic linguistics, lexicology and corpus lexicography (including phonetics, glossolalia (speaking in tongues), trademarks, brand names and Intellectual Property - acting as Expert Witness in courts all over the globe);

    (7) Contact linguistics, linguistic evolution, hybridity, multiple causation, cross-fertilization, horizontal gene transfer in languages;

    (8) Lexical expansion, camouflaged borrowing (including phono-semantic matching), e.g. in Mandarin Chinese, language planning, language academies;

    (9) English as the World's Language;

    (10) Israel, Jewish Studies, Middle East, the language of politics and the politics of language;

    (11) Historical linguistics;

    (12) Alternative language teaching methods, mnemonics;

    (13) Native Tongue Title (proposed compensation for language loss), language rights;

    (14) Intangible cultural heritage;

    (15) Internationalization of China's linguistics.

    §   Wellbeing and Social Cohesion: 

    Https://blogs.adelaide.edu.au/research/2018/12/19/language-reclaimed-health-regained/ 

    http://www.adelaide.edu.au/news/news89802.html 

    http://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/nitv-news/article/2017/02/21/could-language-revival-cure-diabetes 

    https://youtu.be/izVGZRqciTY

    https://www.theaustralian.com.au/special-reports/research-magazine/australias-living-legends-of-research/news-story/8384e1bb6bd8f7bc966b0386a3927084 

     

    Chair Prof. Dr Dr Ghil'ad Zuckermann's email addresses: gzuckermann@gmail.com ; gzuckermann@middlebury.edu ; gzuckermann@cantab.net ; gz@ling-phil.oxon.org ; ghilad.zuckermann@flinders.edu.au

  • Research Funding

    2017-2021: Examining the Impact of Language Reclamation on Social and Emotional Wellbeing among the Barngarla, National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Project Grant APP1129796 (with Professor Alex Brown)

    2007-2011 Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Fellowship DP0770414: Language Revival in the Middle East: The Genesis of Israeli ('Modern Hebrew') – Lessons for the Revival of No-Longer Spoken Australian Languages.

    2024-2025 Nharangga Aboriginal Language Reclamation, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia.

    2012-2024 Barngarla Aboriginal Language Reclamation, Aboriginal Language Support (ILS/ILA), Office For The Arts (OFTA), Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sports, Australian Government.

    2022-2023 Bayoongoo Aboriginal Language Reclamation (Western Australia), First Languages Australia. 

    2010 Project 211 (China): Internationalizing China's Linguistics.

    2013-2015 Traditional Cultural Expressions in Aboriginal Australia and Torres Straits Islands, Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sports, Australian Government. PUBLISHED: ENGAGING – A Guide to Interacting Respectfully and Reciprocally with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, and their Arts Practices and Intellectual Property: http://www.zuckermann.org/guide.html

    2014-2015 Online Learning Space: Barngarla Language, Aboriginal Language Support (ILS) New Media, Ministry for the Arts, Attorney-General’s Department, Australian Government.

    2012-2015 Mobile Language Team, Aboriginal Language Support (ILS), Office For The Arts (OFTA), Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sports, Australian Government. (1,050,000 AUD) (Collaborator)

    2002 British Academy Research Grant: The Camouflaged Lexical Influence of English on the World’s Languages.

     

    Chair Prof. Dr Dr Ghil'ad Zuckermann's email addresses: gzuckermann@gmail.com ; gzuckermann@middlebury.edu ; gzuckermann@cantab.net ; gz@ling-phil.oxon.org ; ghilad.zuckermann@flinders.edu.au

  • Publications

    BOOKS AUTHORED:

    He also contributed three chapters to the Israeli version of Tingo (Tel Aviv: Keren, 2011).
    BOOKS CO-AUTHORED:

    BOOKS EDITED:

    * Burning Issues in Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (2012)

    * Jewish Language Contact (special issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language 226, 2014)

    * Endangered Words, Signs of Revival (AustraLex, 2014). 

     

    MOOC:

    Numerous refereed journal articles and book chapters in 10 languages on Revivalistics, contact linguistics; language, culture, religion and identity; English as the world's language, borrowing, multisourced neologization, lexical engineering, linguistic hybridity, lexicography, second language acquisition, mnemonics, psychometrics, Israeli, Yiddish, Hebrew, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Turkish, Estonian, Icelandic, German, Italian, Maori and Aboriginal languages.

    For example:

    'Hybridity versus Revivability: Multiple Causation, Forms and Patterns', Journal of Language Contact Varia 2: 40-67. (2009)

    'Stop, Revive, Survive: Lessons from the Hebrew Revival Applicable to the Reclamation, Maintenance and Empowerment of Aboriginal Languages and Cultures', Australian Journal of Linguistics 31.1: 111-127. (2011)

    ‘Native Tongue Title: Proposed Compensation for the Loss of Aboriginal Languages’, Australian Aboriginal Studies (AAS) 2014/1: 55-71. (2014)

    Various other articles are available at the following two websites:

    http://adelaide.academia.edu/zuckermann

     http://www.zuckermann.org/articles.html

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    On Professor Ghil‘ad Zuckermann’s 2020 oup BOOK:

    Dr Timothy Haines’s review of this book can be found at https://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/ghilad.zuckermann?dsn=directory.file;field=data;id=42536;m=view  

     

    Relevant links:

    1.      https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drawingroom/keeping-language-alive/12675090

    2.      https://blog.oup.com/2020/06/why-we-should-revive-dead-languages/

    3.      https://www.portlincolntimes.com.au/story/6836816/revivalist-lessons-from-barngarla-journey/

    4.      https://www.adelaide.edu.au/learning-enhancement-innovation/blog-the-learning-cog/what-can-we-do-about-reviving-languages-and-why-it-matters

     

    5.   THE GREAT THINKERS, hosted by Zuckermann and Sufi:

    A. Noam Chomsky, Zuckermann and Sufi, 25 June 2020: Partial recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfG5IyMc89w: Half an hour spontaneous discussion about language, linguistics, Eagles vs OWLs, Hebrew revival, falsifiability, Universal Grammar, Steven Pinker, political correctness etc.: from Minute 38:30 until the end.

    B. Steven Pinker, Zuckermann and Sufi, 10 July 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMcVZvKKspw

    C. Nicholas Ostler, Zuckermann and Sufi, 9 August 2020: https://www.facebook.com/SherrySufiPhD/videos/965927320536241/?vh=e&extid=3D7wnUpQlHQOHIaJ

     

    6. Happy ‘Hebrew’ Language day (5 January 2020): https://www.facebook.com/150009298443333/posts/3456307701146793/?d=n

    7. A review in Yiddish: https://forward.com/yiddish/461258/scholar-compares-modern-hebrew-and-the-aboriginal-language-barngarla/?fbclid=IwAR2W3mLpgRcgA9ZAl_YKwN-KAAQxH0wWGelTgwSu1ZcESJcTgv7IgKG0PL0

     

    Chair Prof. Dr Dr Ghil'ad Zuckermann's email addresses: gzuckermann@gmail.com ; gzuckermann@middlebury.edu ; gzuckermann@cantab.net ; gz@ling-phil.oxon.org ; ghilad.zuckermann@flinders.edu.au

  • Professional Associations

    Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) (Elected Fellow, 2014-present) (MAIATSIS, FAIATSIS)

    Foundation or Endangered Languages (FEL) (Elected Board Member)

    Australian Association for Jewish Studies (AAJS) (Elected President, thrice, 2017-2023)

    Australasian Association for Lexicography (AUSTRALEX) (Elected President, 2013-2015)

    Academy of Oriental Scholars (Shanghai) (Elected Member)

    European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) (Elected Member)

    Linguistic Society of America (LSA)

    The Philological Society

    Centre for Research on Language Change (CRLC) (Elected Member)

    International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)

    The Antipodean East European Study Group

    Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics (SPCL)

    Australian Linguistic Society (ALS)

    National Association of Professors of Hebrew (NAPH)

    European Association for Lexicography (EURALEX)

    Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée (AILA)

    World Union of Jewish Studies (WUJS)

    Association for Jewish Studies (AJS)

    Israeli Association for the Study of Language and Society (IALS)

    Singapore Association for Applied Linguistics (SAAL)

    Cambridge Institute of Language Research (CILR)

     

    Chair Prof. Dr Dr Ghil'ad Zuckermann's email addresses: gzuckermann@gmail.com ; gzuckermann@middlebury.edu ; gzuckermann@cantab.net ; gz@ling-phil.oxon.org ; ghilad.zuckermann@flinders.edu.au

  • Professional Interests

    2004-present Editorial Board Member, Journal of Language Contact.

    2009-present Editorial Board Member, Jewish Contemporary Review.

    2010-present Editorial Board Member, Israeli Journal of Humor Research.

    2007-present Editorial Board Member, Mizrekh: Jewish Studies in the Far East.

    2007-present Editorial Advisory Board Member, The Open Applied Linguistics Journal.

    1998-present Consultant, Oxford English Dictionary (OED).

    2002-present Consultant, Oxford University Press (OUP).

    2009-present Consultant, Cambridge University Press (CUP).

    2007-present Consultant, Yale University Press (YUP).

    2005-present Consultant, Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, University of Miami.

    2008-present Organizer, Australian Workshop on Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (AWAAL).

    2002-present Annual Conference Organizer, Consultant, Leyvik House, The Israeli Center for Yiddish Culture, Tel Aviv.

    2011-present Scientific Committee Member, International Morphology Meeting (IMM).

    2009-present Scientific Committee Member, Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE).

    2005-present Advisor, International Academic Board, The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA), Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

    2012-present Referee, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

    2011-present Referee, The Leverhulme Trust.

    2011-present Referee, Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP).

     

    2010-present Referee, Israel Science Foundation (ISF).

    2009-present Referee, Australian Linguistic Society (ALS) Annual Conference.

    2008-present Referee, Academic Research Fund, National Institute of Education (NIE), Singapore.

    2010-present Referee, The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics.

    2005-present Referee, Languages in Contrast.

    2005-present Referee, Australian Journal of Linguistics.

    2004-present Referee, Balshanut Ivrit (Hebrew Linguistics).

    2004-present Referee, CamLing (Conference in Language Research, University of Cambridge).

    2002-present Referee, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies.

    2001-present Referee, International Journal of Lexicography.

    2008-10   Mentor, Griffith Industry Mentoring Program, Griffith University.

    2011-12      Examiner, Ph.D., Waikato University, New Zealand.

     

    2008     Examiner, Ph.D., Griffith University, Australia.

    2007-8   Thesis Supervisor, Amirim Programme for Outstanding Students, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

    2003-4    Thesis Supervisor, Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, University College London.

    2001-3    Examiner, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge.

    2000-04  Governing Body Member, Churchill College, Cambridge. 

     

    Prof. G. Zuckermann's email addresses: 

    gzuckermann@gmail.com ; gzuckermann@middlebury.edu ; gzuckermann@cantab.net ; gz@ling-phil.oxon.org 

  • Community Engagement

    2009-11 Internationalization Adviser, Development Office, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.

    2008-present Thought Leader, Creativity Australia, Melbourne.

    2005-present Invited Speaker, Limmud Oz (Annual Festival of Jewish Learning & Culture), Sydney/Melbourne.

    2006-present Invited Lecturer, Leyvik House, The Israeli Center for Yiddish Culture, Tel Aviv.

    2004-present Invited speaker on dozens of TV programmes: in the UK (e.g. BBC), Israel (e.g. Channel 1, Channel 2, Channel 10, YES, YES DOCO)...

    2004-present Invited speaker on hundreds of radio programmes: in Israel (e.g. Galey Tzahal, Reshet Bet, Kol Yisrael), the UK (e.g. BBC), Australia (e.g. four ABC Lingua Franca programmes,an ABC Encounter programme with David Rutledge, an ABC Big Ideas panel broadcast on 15 April 2010; and various SBS interviews in Israeli, Yiddish, Italian and English, 6PR Perth, 3ZZZ Melbourne), Spain (e.g. Radio Sefarad, English Corner), Germany, South Africa, New Zealand...

    1998-present Featuring in thousands of newspaper articles in the USA (e.g.The Forward), UK (e.g. Reuters), Canada (e.g. Globe and Mail), the Netherlands (e.g. Trouw), Sweden (e.g.Språktidningen), Spain (e.g. Terra), Israel (e.g. Haaretz,Maariv, Yediot Aharonot, Jerusalem Post, English Haaretz,Ynet, NRG, Time Out, Makor Rishon, Erev Erev, HaIr), New Zealand (e.g. New Zealand Jewish Chronicle), Germany (e.g. Jüdische Zeitung), and Australia (e.g. The Australian, Courier Mail, Australian Jewish News,Rhapsody, E-ton, Galus Australis).

    2009-present Advisory Board Member, Gifted Speech, New York (applied phonetics).

    2008-present Keynote Speaker, Limmud Galil (Annual Festival of Jewish Learning & Culture), Rosh HaNikra, Israel.

    2007-2010    Lecturer on Jewish Studies and the Hebrew Bible, Multi-Faith Chaplaincy Centre, The University of Queensland.

    2006-2011    Elected Committee Member, Keren Heyesod – United Israel Appeal (UIA), Queensland.

    2010            Keynote Speaker, Limmud Arava (Annual Festival of Jewish Learning & Culture), Sapir, Arava, Israel.

    2009            Participating Chair, two panels, Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF).

    2008            Juror, BIFF Interfaith Award for Promoting Humanitarian Values, Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF). (31 July – 10 August)

    2008            Invited Keynote Speaker, Limmud NZ (Annual Festival of Jewish Learning & Culture), New Zealand.

    2004-8         Auditor and Consultant, BurlingtonEnglish / Burlington Books (applied phonetics).

    2005-6         Invited Professor, Year 11 Conference, Mount Scopus Memorial College, Melbourne.

    2006            Invited Professor, Betar Australia. (September)

    2006           Senior Lecturer, The Hebrew Language in its Cultural Context, The Melton Graduate Programme, The Florence Melton Adult Mini-School (A Project of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Melbourne. (May-June)

    2005            Senior Lecturer, Course for the Hebrew Teachers of Victoria, The Hebrew Teachers Association of Victoria, Bialik College, Melbourne.

    2004            Visiting Professor, The Birth of a Modern Language: An Introduction to the History and Culture of Israeli Hebrew, Adult Institute for Jewish Studies, Temple Beth Am, Miami, Florida. (January-March)

    2002-4         Senior Treasurer, United World Colleges Society, University of Cambridge.

    2002-3         International Selection Examiner, United World Colleges.

    1997            President, Oxford University L’Chaim Society.

    1993-4         Chairman, United World Colleges Israel: organized activities for the Alumni Association; liaison officer for all past and current UWC students/staff making contact with the Israeli branch; member of the National Selection Committee.

    Summer 93   Jewish Agency Representative, Quebec (Canada).

    1989-93       Writer of clues for the cryptic crossword of Yedioth Ahronoth (Israel’s largest daily newspaper).

    1986-7         Chairman, B’nai B’rith Youth Organization, Eilat, Negev, Israel.

     

    Chair Prof. Dr Dr Ghil'ad Zuckermann's email addresses: gzuckermann@gmail.com ; gzuckermann@middlebury.edu ; gzuckermann@cantab.net ; gz@ling-phil.oxon.org ; ghilad.zuckermann@flinders.edu.au

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