Dan Shapira is Dept. of Middle Eastern Studies, Bar-Ilan University and Feldman Professor of the History and Culture of Eastern European Jewry, Faculty of Jewish Studies. Language Skills: fluent in: Hebrew, English, Russian, German, Persian, Turkish, Azeri, Crimean-Tatar, Arabic (including Palestinian, Egyptian and Iraqi dialects), Urdu & Hindi, Yiddish, Ukrainian, Maltese. Reading only: all the Semitic languages, all the Slavic Languages, all the Romance Languages, all the Germanic Languages, all the Iranian Languages, all the Aryan-Indian languages, all the Turkic languages, Classical Mongolian, Classical Armenian, Georgian, Greek, T'ang-Period Chinese, Hungarian, Elamite, some Bahasa Indonesia / Malay, some Swahili, some Japanese.

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