Menachem Banitt Explained

Menachem Banitt
Birth Name:Max Berenblut
Birth Date:17 July 1914
Birth Place:Antwerp, Belgium
Death Place:Israel
Nationality: Israel
Occupation:Scholar of medieval French culture and language
Known For:Expert on Rashi and Judeo-French

Menachem Banitt (born Max Berenblut, July 17, 1914, Antwerp, Belgium, died February 24, 2007, Israel),[1] [2] was a Belgian–Israeli scholar of medieval French culture and language and an internationally acclaimed expert on Rashi. Banitt was particularly known for his analysis of Rashi's occasional translation of words and phrases from Hebrew or Aramaic into Old French, written phonetically in Hebrew letters.

Banitt, who lived for most of his life in Israel, was a recipient of the Israel Prize for the Study of Jewish Languages in 1999.[3] He was also awarded the French honour of Officier of the Ordre des Palmes académiques.[4]

Banitt was credited with writing the articles in the second edition of The Jewish Encyclopedia (2007) on David S. Blondheim, Judeo-French and La'az.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.obi-il.org/piks/lelien_1.pdf{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  2. Book: Vernacular Voices: Language and Identity in Medieval French Jewish Communities. 9780812205350. June 6, 2011. University of Pennsylvania Press.
  3. Web site: Israel Awards Department. . Hebrew. September 23, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110921103840/http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/PrasIsrael/TashnagTashsab/TASNAG_TASNAT_Rikuz.htm?DictionaryKey=Tashnat . September 21, 2011 .
  4. Web site: Three Tau Professors win 1999 Israel Prize . July 1, 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130708025113/http://www.tau.ac.il/taunews/99spring/prize.html . July 8, 2013. .
  5. Encyclopedia: Contributors to the encyclopaedia . Encyclopaedia Judaica. 52. April 14, 2022. 2 . 1 . Thomson Gale.