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• Public Services Librarian,Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, University of Pennsylvania
• Independent researcher, writer, and lecturer, Romance and corpus linguistics.

• Library, The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Research Associate to Special Collections. 1993-1999.

• Sprache und Identität: Die Juden in Südosteuropa : Identitäten und Alteritäten -- Vortrag im Rahmen des Kolloquiums des Teilprojekts. Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 7 December 2000
• I metodi informatici e il corpus dei testi giudeo-italiani, editi ed inediti. Letteratura, Linguistica e Informatica. AAIS (American Association for Italian Studies) Conference 2000, 14 April 2000
• Jewish Vernacular Literature in Italy, 1200-1600. Hunter College, Department of Romance Languages, New York, 1998.
• Judeo-Italo- and Judeo-Gallo-Romance Linguistic, Literary, and Glossary Traditions.
• Italian Metrical Canons and Hebrew Poetry in Italy.
• The Jewish Woman and Literacy in the Middle Ages.
• Verbal, Literary, and Iconographic Signs in Jewish and non-Jewish Cultures.
• Jews in the Sciences - Astronomy and the Calendar.

• Centro di studi Opera del Vocabolario Italiano, test database participant.
• Telepress, Inc., 1998 - Present  (on demand).
  Translation (written), English-Italian and Italian-English.
• KJ International, 1998 - Present (on demand).
  Translation (written and simultaneous), English-Italian and Italian-English.
• GENSYM, 1996-1997.
  Consultant for graphemic representations in natural language interfaces.
• The Saul Lieberman Institute of Talmudic Research, 1993-1997.
  Proofreader, The Sol and Evelyn Henkind Talmud Text Data Bank.

• English as a second language instructor.
• Italian language instructor.

• "Jüdische Kultusgemeinde", article in Der neue Pauly. Enzyklopädie der Antike (in publication).
• Hypertext publication of I Trionfi by Francesco Petrarca (September 1998).
• Judeo-Italian, article in The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2000.
• La tradizione manoscritta giudeo-italiana della Bibbia, Doctoral Dissertation, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 1993.
• La Bibbia a Stampa da Gutenberg a Bodoni, contributor and editorial consultant, 29 entries. Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana, Florence, 1991

 Forthcoming

• A Descriptive Grammar of Judeo-Italian (LINCOM Europa, Munich).
• Survey of Corfiote Judeo-Italian  (LINCOM Europa, Munich).
• Parma Palatine MS 3068, Judeo-Italian translation of Latter Prophets - critical edition (LINCOM Europa, Munich).
• Judeo-Italian Kinot for the 9th of Av, Corfiot Rite - critical edition (LINCOM Europa, Munich).

 In Progress

• X-Bar Structures in Judeo-Italian Translations.
• Aspect, Voice and Diathesis: Meta-Transformations in Judeo-Italian Verbs.
• Il canone liturgico giudeo-italiano.
• Selected Letters of D. S. Blondheim.
• Laura: A Jungian Perspective.

• Romance linguistics, Italian linguistics and dialectology, Judeo-Italian, Judeo-Romance linguistics, Judeo-X language theory.
• Diachronic and historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, dialectology, socio-linguistics, comparative linguistics, typology, textual criticism.
• Italian medieval and Renaissance literature and bibliography.
• Hebrew and Judaica bibliography.
• Comparative Semitic linguistics; Comparative Indo-European linguistics.
• Codicology, paleography, history of printing.

• Native fluency in English and Italian.
• Romance - French, Occitan (Provençal), Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Gallego, Romantsch; Judeo-Romance languages and varieties (reading and research).
• Classical Indo-European - Latin (reading and research), Greek (research).
• Germanic - German, Yiddish, Dutch (research).
• Semitic - Hebrew, Aramaic (reading and research); Accadian, Arabic (research).
• Slavic - Czech, Polish, Russian (research).

• Windows 3.1, 95/98/2000 (advanced knowledge); DOS, Unix, Linux (intermediate knowledge).
• MS Word, Access, Excel, PowerPoint, FrontPage (all to 2000), WordPerfect 8, graphics programs (Adobe, Image Composer, Paintshop Pro), scanners and software (graphics and OCR); internet applications (browsers, telnet, FTP, TCP/IP connection setup); Pico, Emacs.
• HTML (intermediate knowledge); JavaScript, DHTML (beginner  knowledge).
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