Assaf Bar-Moshe holds a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in Linguistics and Arabic Language, and specializes in Mesopotamian Jewish Arabic dialects. Having dedicated years for the research of the Jewish dialects of Baghdad and ˁĀna, Assaf is currently working in Freie Universität, Berlin on documenting additional Judeo-Arabic dialects towards a comparative analysis of Jewish Arabic dialects in the region. Beyond research, Assaf instructs Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic at the Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages and published a textbook for the dialect. 

Books

Bar-Moshe, Assaf. 2024. The Jewish Arabic dialect of ˁĀna: Grammatical sketch and texts. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Bar-Moshe, Assaf. 2024. A Textbook of Jewish Baghdadi Arabic. London: UCL Press.

Bar-Moshe, Assaf. 2019. The Arabic Dialect of the Jews of Baghdad: Phonology, Morphology and Texts. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Bar-Moshe, Assaf. 2012. The Road to Chinese: Study Units in Mandarin Chinese for Hebrew Speakers. China Alliance Institute.

Peer Reviewed Articles

Bar-Moshe, Assaf. Forthcoming. Tracing the diachronic development of third-person pronominal suffixes in northern qǝltu dialects. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 176(2).

Bar-Moshe, Assaf. Forthcoming. Uncovering a substrate: The case of the Jewish Arabic dialect of Nusaybin/Qamishli. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 116.

Bar-Moshe, Assaf. 2025. An insight into the linguistic diversity of Iraqi Jews: How does the Jewish Arabic dialect of ˁĀna differs from that of Baghdad? Massorot 23: 75-90. (In Hebrew)

Bar-Moshe, Assaf. 2024. The Jewish Arabic dialects of southern Iraqi Kurdistan within the Jewish qǝltu dialects continuum. Mediterranean Language Review 31: 107-118.

Bar-Moshe, Assaf. 2024. Diversity explained: Why do qǝltu dialects present three different forms for the long persons in the prefix-conjugation? In: Simona Olivieri and Shabo Talay (eds.), Current Research in Semitic Studies: Proceedings of the Semitic Studies Section at the 34^th DOT at Freie Universität Berlin. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 217-234.

Bar-Moshe, Assaf. 2023. The prefix vowels of the prefix-conjugation in the Jewish Arabic dialect of ˁĀna: A chain of innovations. Folia Orientalia 60: 189-205. [10.24425/for.2023.148423]

Bar-Moshe, Assaf. 2022. The short vowel system of the Jewish Arabic dialect of ˁĀna: A struggle between phonetic and historical developments. Zeitschrift für arabische Linguistik 76: 50-72.

Bar-Moshe, Assaf. 2021. The functions of the dative in the Jewish Arabic dialect of Baghdad. Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics 13(2): 187-216. [10.1163/18776930-20210004]

Bar-Moshe, Assaf. 2021. The Argument Flagging and Indexing Construction in the Jewish Arabic Dialect of Baghdad. Journal of Semitic Studies 66(2): 413-440.

Bar-Moshe, Assaf. 2020. Ditransitive Complexes in the Jewish Dialect of Baghdad. Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 48: 121-157.

Bar-Moshe, Assaf. 2018. The historical development of the vowels ē and ō and their allophones in the Jewish Dialect of Baghdad. Zeitschrift für arabische Linguistik 68: 5-30.

Arnold, Werner and Bar-Moshe, Assaf. 2017. Linguistic Features Shared by the Jewish Dialects of Baghdad and Aleppo and Their Possible Implications for the History of Both Communities. Journal of Jewish Languages 5 (1): 22-48.

Book Chapters

Bar-Moshe, Assaf. 2022. Substrate breaking free: The case of the argument flagging and indexing construction in the Jewish dialect of Baghdad. In: Maciej Klimiuk (ed.), Semitic Dialects and Dialectology: Fieldwork–Community–Change. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Press. 65-86.

Bar-Moshe, Assaf. 2019. Phonetic analysis as a supportive tool for phonemic understanding: Two case studies from the Jewish dialect of Baghdad. In: Werner Arnold & Maciej Klimiuk(eds.), Arabic Dialectology: Methodology and Field Research. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 111-135.

Encyclopedia Entries

Bar-Moshe, Assaf. 2024. Iraqi-Judeo-Arabic. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World Online.

Conference Proceedings

Bar-Moshe, Assaf. 2024. The Jewish Arabic dialect of ˁĀna: An Euphrates branch dialect of the qǝltu family. In: Carmen Berlinches Ramos, Jairo Guerrero and Montserrat Benítez Fernández (eds.), AIDA Granada: A Pomegranate of Arabic Varieties. Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza. 47-57.

Bar-Moshe, Assaf. 2022. Differential object marking in the Jewish dialect of Baghdad. In: Guram Chikovani and Zviad Tskhvediani (eds.), Studies on Arabic dialectology and sociolinguistics, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of AIDA, June 10-13, 2019. Kutaisi: Akaki Tsereteli State University. 34-43.

Databases

Bar-Moshe, Assaf, and Nikita Kuzin. 2025. Bivalent patterns in Arabic (Jewish Baghdadi). In: Say, Sergey (ed.), BivalTyp: Typological database of bivalent verbs and their encoding frames. (https://bivaltyp.info/languages/descriptions/Arabic_Jewish_Baghdadi.html)

Book Reviews

2025. Review of: [Blanc, Haim. Communal dialects in Baghdad (Revisited reprint, David Blanc and Alexander Borg, eds.). In Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics (Vol. 111). Brill, 2024]. In: Journal of Semitic Studies 70(1): e24-e25.

2023. Review of: [Otto Jastrow: Der arabische Dialekt der Christen von Kaˁbīye (Diyarbakır). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2022]. In: Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 54: 459-470.

2022. Review of: [Mordechai Akiva Friedman: A Dictionary of Medieval Judeo-Arabic: In the India Book letters from the Geniza and in other texts. Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2016]. In: Mediterranean Language Review 29: 186-188.

2022. Review of: [Leitner, Bettina, German, Fadi, Procházka, Stephan: Lehrbuch des Irakisch-Arabischen: Praxisnaher Einsteig in den Dialekt von Baghdad. Wiesbaden: Harrossowitz Verlag, 2021]. In: Zeitschrift für arabische Linguistik 75: 96-98.

2021. Review of: [Joshua Blau: Arabic Linguistics. Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute, 2017]. In: Zeitschrift für arabische Linguistik 73: 102-108.

2019. Review of: [Lutz Edzard (ed.): The Morpho-Syntactic and Lexical Encoding of Tense and Aspect in Semitic. Proceedings of the Erlangen Workshop on April 16, 2014. (Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, vol. 104). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016]. In: Journal of the American Oriental Society 139.4: 1001-1003.

2018. Review of: [Bo Isaksson & Maria Persson (eds.): Clause Combining in Semitic: The Circumstantial Clause and Beyond. (Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, vol. 96). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015]. In: Mediterranean Language Review 25: 200-203.

Dissertations

Bar-Moshe, Assaf. 2016. The Functions of Preverbal Markers in Jewish-Baghdadi Arabic. Doctoral dissertation, The Hebrew University.

Bar-Moshe, Assaf. 2011. Between Demonstratives and Third Person Pronouns in Mandarin Chinese. MA Thesis, The Hebrew University.