David Bunis

David M. Bunis (PhD., Columbia University, 1981) is a professor at the Center for Jewish Languages and Literatures, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and heads its program in Judezmo (or Ladino) studies. He is also an advisor to the Israel National Authority for Ladino Language and Culture. He is the author of A Lexicon of the Hebrew and Aramaic Elements in Modern Judezmo (Jerusalem, 1993), The Judezmo Language (in Hebrew, Jerusalem, 1999), Voices from Jewish Salonika (Jerusalem-Salonika, 1999), and numerous articles on the Judezmo language and its literature and on Jewish languages as a field of scholarly inquiry. He is the editor of Languages and Literatures of Sephardic and Oriental Jews (Jerusalem, 2009)
Phone: 02-588-0255
Address: Department of Hebrew and Jewish Languages
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mount Scopus Campus
Jerusalem