Life & contribution
Baghdad-born scholar of Arabic language and literature and a major researcher of modern Arabic and Iraqi Jewish writing.
Detailed biography & historical context
Baghdad-born scholar of Arabic language and literature and a major researcher of modern Arabic and Iraqi Jewish writing.
The documented record currently assembled for Shmuel Moreh includes the following: Baghdad-born scholar of Arabic language and literature who became a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Received the Israel Prize for Middle Eastern studies in 1999 and published extensively on modern Arabic literature and Iraqi Jewish Arabic writers.
This figure is important to the literary history of Iraqi Jews because writing became a way to preserve language, memory and the experience of belonging to Iraq before and after migration. The record also shows the continuing relationship between Arabic, Hebrew and diaspora literary cultures.
Archive classification: Scholarship & Literature. Recorded life dates/status: 1932–2017.
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Additional documented context
- Baghdad-born scholar of Arabic language and literature who became a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
- Received the Israel Prize for Middle Eastern studies in 1999 and published extensively on modern Arabic literature and Iraqi Jewish Arabic writers.
Documentary references
Additional biographical details are tied to the source records below.
Permanent ID · IJHDA-PER-0014
This biographical figure record is integrated into Discover Jewish Iraq from the Virtual Embassy’s Iraqi Jewish heritage collection.