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ד"ר אילאיל באום

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ilil.baum@mail.huji.ac.il
    קורות חיים

    Education

    PhD, Romance and Latin American Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (supervisor: Prof. Cyril Aslanov).

    2018

    MA, Romance and Latin American Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Magna cum Laude).

    2012

    BA, General Linguistics; Communication & Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Magna cum Laude).

    2009  

    Professional experience

    2019-2024

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Martin Buber Society of Fellows, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    2018-2019

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow, “Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern”, The Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan.

     

     

    Awards and Fellowships

    2018

    The Bernard M. Bloomfield Prize for Distinction (Summa cum Laude) in the doctoral dissertation.

    2012-2017

    The Polonsky Fellowship for Outstanding Doctoral Candidates in the General Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

    2017

     

    Premio Presidente Itzhak Navon z”l Summa Cum Laude to PhD students, The National Authority of Ladino, Israel.

    2017

    Gaon Award to Doctorate students, Moshe David Gaon Center for Ladino Culture, Ben-Gurion University.

     

     

    מחקר

     

     

    פרסומים

    List of Publications

    Dissertation

    Baum, Ilil. “Judeo-Catalan, Jewish multilingualism and linguistic Contact in Late medieval Catalonia.” PhD diss., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2018.

     

    Journals

    Baum, Ilil. “Traces of Jewish Scotism among late Medieval Catalan Jews: a Catalan translation in Hebrew script of De Distinctione Predicamentorum by Petrus Thomae.” Medieval Encounters 26 (2020): 543–577.

    Baum, Ilil. “Jewish Lullism around the Expulsion: Spanish-Catalan Fragment in Hebrew Characters from Ramon Llull’s Introductorium Magnae Artis Generalis.” Jewish Quarterly Review 110.3 (2020), 553–573; A1–A16.

    Baum, Ilil. “Jofre (Jaufre): The Circulation of Arthurian Romances among Late Medieval Catalan Jews.” Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies (2019): 127.

    Baum, Ilil. “El Català en les fonts hebrees: algunes consideracions de l’aportació d’un tresor negligit.” Estudis Romànics 39 (2017): 345354.

    Baum, Ilil. “Hebrew-Catalan Medieval Wedding Songs: Satirical Functions of the Hebrew Component and Other Linguistic Aspects.” Journal of Jewish Languages 4.2 (2016): 137.

    Baum, Ilil. “On the Extensive Use of the Suffix -ada in Judeo-Spanish.” Massorot 18 (2016): 124 [in Hebrew].

     

    Book chapters

    Baum, Ilil. “The ecology of language evolution: a comparative view of Jewish languages and Creoles.” In Uniformitarianism in Genetic Creolistics, edited by Salikoko Mufwene and Enoch Aboh. Cambridge University Press, 2024 (forthcoming).

    Baum, Ilil. “A Hebrew-letter fragment in mixed Castilian-Catalan from around the time of the Expulsion and its implications for the emergence of Judeo-Spanish.” In Caminos de leche y miel. Jubilee Volume in Honor of Michael Studemund-Halévy, vol. 2. edited by David M. Bunis, Ivana Vučina Simović, and Corinna Deppner. Barcelona: Tirocinio, 2018: 46–63.

    Baum, Ilil. “El judeoespañol y la conservación del léxico popular del castellano medieval.” In Con una letra joven. Avances en el estudio de la Historiografía e Historia de la Lengua Española, edited by Clara Grande LópezLeyre Martín AizpuruSoraya Salicio Bravo. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2014: 187191.

     

    Other publications

    Baum, Ilil. “Judeo-Catalan” Jewish Language Project, ed. Sarah Bunin Benor (Los Angeles: Jewish Language Project, 2023). https://www.jewishlanguages.org/judeo-catalan

    Baum, Ilil. “Refleksiones a proposito del muevo livro de Shmuel Refael, ‘Ladino Aki i Agora’ (Universita Tel Aviv, Desembre 2020).” Aki Yerushalayim 105 (August 2021), forthcoming [in Ladino].

    Baum, Ilil. “La identidad djudia i el konosimiento del arabo en la Espanya kristiana medievala.” Aki Yerushalayim 101 (September 2020): 38–39, [in Ladino].

    Baum, Ilil. “Jewish identity and the knowledge of Arabic in Christian Spain.” Frankel Institute Annual (2019): 7–9.

    תאריך עדכון אחרון : 08/02/2024