:Yaakov Bentolila

Bentolila was born in 1935 to Vidal and Mercedes Bentolila, a Sephardic Jewish family. He studied at a school of the Alliance Israélite Universelle and later at the Spanish Lyceum in Tétouan. In 1950, he moved to France, and made Aliyah a year later, arriving in Yavne. Upon reaching adulthood, he served in the Israel Defense Forces under the Nahal Brigade.{{Cite web |date=25 Apr 2010 |title=Jews of the Maghreb: A Symposium |url=http://www.library.yale.edu/judaica/site/conferences/northafricanjewry/ybentolila.php |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170511083959/http://www.library.yale.edu/judaica/site/conferences/northafricanjewry/ybentolila.php |archive-date=2017-05-11 |access-date=2023-07-06 |website=Yale Library}}

His parents immigrated to Israel in 1956, along with his two brothers. They passed through an immigration center to Kiryat Gat, where Bentolila worked as an electrician. In 1958, he began working with Bnei Akiva, travelling back to Morocco, France, and other Maghrebi countries. While working for Bnei Akiva, he met his wife, a French Jew of Hungarian origin. They married in Strasbourg in 1961.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}}

Bentolila was the head of the Hebrew Language Department at Ben-Gurion University from 1974 to 1992. Concurrently, he conducted research at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard, and became well known among researchers studying Haketia and Judeo-Spanish culture of North Africa.{{Cite web |last=Bentolila |first=Yaacov |title=Haketía: El Djudeo-Espagnol de la Afrika del Nord |trans-title=Haketia: The Judeo-Spanish of North Africa |url=http://www.anajnu.cl/haketia.htm |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160608034859/http://www.anajnu.cl/haketia.htm |archive-date=2016-06-08 |access-date=5 Jul 2023 |website=Anajnu.cl |language=es}}

• {{Cite book |last=Bentolila |first=Yaakov |url=https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31243634648&searchurl=an%3Dbentolila%2Byaakov%26sortby%3D17&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title1 |title=A French-Italian Tradition of Post-Biblical Hebrew [IN HEBREW]. [SERIES]: Publications of The Hebrew University Language Traditions Project / XIV. |publisher=Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press |year=1989 |location=Beer Sheva |language=en}}
• {{Cite web |last=Bentolila |first=Yaakov |date=Dec 1996 |title=Un message crypté dans l'inscription synagogale de Haguenau |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250137274 |access-date=5 Jul 2023 |website=ResearchGate}}
• {{Cite book |last=Ben-Tolila |first=Yaakov |title=Šay lHadasah: meḥqariym balašwn haʿibriyt wbilšwnwt haYhwdiym |publisher=Hwṣ. haspariym šel ʾWniybersiyṭat Ben-Gwrywn baNegeb |others=Ben Gurion university of the Negev |year=1997 |isbn=978-965-342-664-1 |series=ʾEšel Bʾer-Šebaʿ |location=Bʾer-Šebaʿ |language=he}}
• {{Cite web |last=Bentolila |first=Yaakov |date=Jan 2002 |title=From Written to Oral — Canonical Literature as Reflected in Proverbs / מן הכתב אל הפה: גלגולה של ספרות קאנונית בפתגמים |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260144153 |access-date=5 Jul 2023 |website=Researchgate}}
• Haketia: The Judeo-Spanish of North Africa Los Muestros N°61, (December 2005)
• {{Cite book |last1=Bentolila |first1=Yaakov |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tAwtAQAAIAAJ |title=איל פריזינטי |last2=Alexander |first2=Tamar |publisher=Universidad Ben-Gurion del Negev |year=2008 |isbn=9789659116416 |volume=2-4 |location=Negev |language=he}}
• La palabra en su hora es oro, co-written with Tamar Alexander (2009){{Cite web |title=Presentación de libro ::La palabra en su hora es oro ::Instituto Cervantes de Tel-Aviv |url=https://telaviv.cervantes.es/FichasCultura/Ficha52072_50_1.htm |access-date=2023-07-06 |website=telaviv.cervantes.es}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Alexander |first1=Tamar |last2=Bentolila |first2=Yaakov |author-link2=Yaakov Bentolila |last3=Şarhon |first3=Karen Gerson |last4=Papo |first4=Eliezer |year=2009 |title='Maria, sister of Aaron, play your tambourine': Music in the Lives of Crypto-Jewish Women in Portugal |url=https://archive.jpr.org.uk/object-por14 |journal=El Prezente: Studies in Sephardic Culture |volume=3 |pages=293–314 |isbn=978-965-91164-2-3}}
• {{Cite book |last=Bentolila |first=Yaakov |url=https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30233603371&searchurl=an%3Dbentolila%2Byaakov%26sortby%3D17&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title10 |title=Studies in the history and culture of North African Jewry : proceedings of the symposium at Yale University, April 25, 2010 |publisher=Program in Judaic Studies |year=2010 |isbn=9789654810418 |location=New Haven |language=en}}
• {{Cite web |last1=Bentolila |first1=Yaakov |last2=Alexander |first2=Tamar |date=Dec 2010 |title=Adolescence and the Period of Apprenticeship among the Western Sephardim in the Seventeenth Century |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258566091 |access-date=5 Jul 2023 |website=ResearchGate}}
• {{Cite journal |last1=Bentolila |first1=Yaakov |last2=Center |first2=Gaon |date=2015-01-01 |title=Yaakov Bentolila, "Cómo se trokan los proverbiosˮ, El Prezente 8-9 / Mikan 15, III (2015), pp. 1-9. |url=https://www.academia.edu/73767827}}
• {{Citation |last1=Alexander |first1=Tamar |title=Judeo-Spanish Haketic Proverbs from Northern Morocco: Sources and Studies |date=2015 |url=https://cris.bgu.ac.il/en/publications/judeo-spanish-haketic-proverbs-from-northern-morocco-sources-and- |work=Bis dat, qui cito dat |pages=17–28 |editor-last=Grandl |editor-first=Christian |access-date=2023-07-06 |publisher=Peter Lang Publishing Inc. |isbn=978-3-631-64872-8 |last2=Bentolila |first2=Yaakov |editor2-last=McKenna |editor2-first=Kevin J.}}
• {{Cite book |last=Bentolila |first=Yaakov |title=Diccionario del elemento hebreo en la haketía |publisher=UCOPress |year=2016 |isbn=978-8499272009 |location=Cordoba |language=es |trans-title=Dictionary of Hebrew elements in Haketia}}
• THE ON THE MEANING OF PERSONAL NAMES IN HAKITIC PROVERBS, co-written with Tamar Alexander{{Cite web |last1=Ben tolilia |first1=Yaakov |last2=Alexander |first2=Tamar |date= |title=THE ON THE MEANING OF PERSONAL NAMES IN HAKITIC PROVERBS |url=http://www.folklore.org.il/JSIJF/jsijf19-20.html#meaning |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110918021523/http://www.folklore.org.il/JSIJF/jsijf19-20.html#meaning |archive-date=2011-09-18 |access-date=5 Jul 2023 |website=folklore.org.il}}
• {{Cite journal |last=Bentolila |first=Yaakov |title=El Prezente Studies in Sephardic Culture The National Authority for Ladino and its Culture |url=https://www.academia.edu/52788991}}
• {{Cite web |last=Bentolila |first=Yaakov |title=Une taqqana tétouanaise de 1822 |url=https://www.academia.edu/56931688 |access-date=2023-07-06 |website=www.academia.edu}}<
• {{Cite web |last=Bentolila |first=Yaakov |title=Bilingualism in a Moroccan Settlement in the South of Israel 1 |url=https://www.academia.edu/65057782 |access-date=2023-07-06 |website=www.academia.edu}}
• {{Cite web |last=Bentolila |first=Yaakov |title=La résurrection d'une langue morte : le cas de l'hébreu moderne |url=https://www.academia.edu/100251014 |access-date=2023-07-06 |website=www.academia.edu}}

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