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community holds a central place in his life. He lectures before it during Jewish Holy days and during long summer
Saturdays and holds a series of classes on diverse subjects, such as: The Bible and its classical commentators, legends, literature of the Sages of Our Blessed Memory, sources of Jewish habits and their development, Jewish thought, Pirkei Avoth, and the Leadership of Maimonides based on his letters. In addition, Professor Sharvit was active in the Morocco Descendant's Alliance organization as well as at the Dahan Center (Center for Society, Culture and Education of the Sephardic Jewry Legacy) affiliated with the Bar-Ilan University, and also headed its academic committee for a number of years. Professor Sharvit was also active as a member of the public administration of the National Library in Jerusalem from 2001 and was later nominated to serve as a member of its board of directors (until 2011).
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literature. During the dissertation writing period, Sharvit served as Senior
Assistant to the heads of the Department of Semitic and Hebrew Languages (Professors Kadari and Zarfati), and later was himself appointed to head it, a position he held for three years. Sharvit worked over an extended period of time as a researcher at the Institute of Lexicography under the management of its founders, Professor Kotscher and Professor Kadari, later becoming its scientific director.
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Evening to the Mimuna (Moroccan Jewry legacy), and the bi-annual evening entitled New Findings in the Research of Yemenite Jewry. The cooperation with the Dahan Center has expanded over the past three years to include international conferences dealing with the topics of Society and Jewry, with six conferences already held in Italy, Brazil, Macedonia, Montreal, Cape Town
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Academic College. Their first steps required them to use extensive means of persuasion with department heads at the University, aimed and receiving their consent to establish full specialization study programs at the college, with an emphasis on prestigious and sought after subjects such as Economics and Psychology.
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management: its president, Professor Moshe Mani, the Rector, Professor
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Sharvit did not limit himself to academic work in education and research, but contributed extensively to the community and society over many years. He frequently lectured to the general public as part of the activities of a range of social and community organizations. For thirty years, his Ramat Ilan
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His fields of research: Talmudic language (diction, design, syntax and style), Avoth tractate, prayer texts, nontraditional Hebrew punctuation methods in the Middle Ages, linguistic and stylistic means in responsa and other topics related to socio-linguistics. Professor
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Over time, the regional academy became an academic college. In 2005, upon his retirement from Bar-Ilan
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His colleagues and students published a jubilee book in his honor: Articles in the Language of the Sages and Adjacent Fields. The book was edited by Professor Ephraim Hazan and Professor Zohar Livnat, and published jointly by the Bar-Ilan University and the Ashkelon Academic College in 2011.
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recently appointed president, Professor Shlomo Grossman has put an emphasis on the development of a new field of studies: Health Sciences. The college's administration is now awaiting approval to launch studies in the first two faculties: Public Health and Nursing.
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