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Published jointly with The Academy of the Hebrew Language.
♦ Recipient of the 2006 Outstanding Judaica Reference Work award of the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL).
In the Middle Ages, Jews in Arab lands used both Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew as their literary languages. The Dictionary is based largely on the works of the leading Jewish scholars of the period, including Saadia Gaon, Judah Halevi, and Maimonides, but it also refers to the Responsa literature, legal documents, and personal and commercial letters.
This first comprehensive dictionary of Mediaeval Judaeo-Arabic contains about 9,000 entries. The lemmas are presented in both Arabic and Hebrew scripts, and are translated into Hebrew and English. A special section is devoted to lexicographical literature.