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Herbert H. Paper     (Display directory entry)

Dr. Paper is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and near Eastern Languages, and is the Editor of the Hebrew Union College Annual, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati. He received a doctorate from the University of Chicago. Dr. Paper taught at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and joined HUC-JIR as the Dean of Graduate Studies. His specialties are Persian studies, concentrating on the history of the Persian language and on the ancient languages of Iran, and Yiddish literature.

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Chicago (1951)

Lecture Titles

  • History of the Yiddish Literature
  • The Languages of the Jews Throughout History
  • Sholem Aleichem as a Social Critic
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