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Jacob M. Landau
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Jacob M. Landau

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Notable figure 1924–2020 · Source: ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Humaid, Aʿmal al-mustashriqin al-ʿarabiyya fi al-muʿjam al-ʿarabi: dirasa wa-taqwim (PhD thesis, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, 1433 AH), p. 67 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Landau, Jacob M. (1924-2020)

From Moldova; worked in Palestine

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Compiler of a word count of modern Arabic prose (1959)

Biography

Born in Kishinev, he lived in Palestine and taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He compiled a word count of modern Arabic prose (New York, 1959) that covered, besides the common vocabulary of the press, the basic words of literary prose in the wide sense, holding that a statistical count is not an end in itself but indispensable groundwork for Arabic teaching materials. Later counts, Bobzin's verb lists among them, used his figures as a point of comparison. He also wrote on the Arab theatre and cinema.