Dina Dahbany-Miraglia

Dina Dahbany-Miraglia (born 1938, New York City) is an American-born Yemeni linguistic anthropologist. She is an alumnus of a girls-only Orthodox Ashkenazi yeshiva, Hunter College, and Columbia University, earning a Ph.D. (anthropology, 1983). Her work has focused on Yemenite Jews and English as a Second Language. Dahbany-Miraglia served as a professor at Queensborough Community College, City University of New York, until she retired.[1] She is known as a cross-disciplinarian because of her musical, modern dance, and performance training.[2]

Publications
  • Verbal protective behavior among Yemenite Jews, 1975
  • The Yemenite Jewish community, 1980
  • An analysis of ethnic identity among Yemenite Jews in the greater New York area, 1982
  • Yemenite Jewish poetry, 1982
  • American Yemenite Jewish dance : the oldtimers and their children, 1988
  • Speaking American English well, 1999
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References
  1. "Guide to the Papers of Dina Dahbany-Miraglia 1975-2001". Center for Jewish History. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  2. "Editorial Team". University of Toronto. Retrieved 1 November 2015.


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