Nina Pinto-Abecasis
Nina Pinto-Abecasis | |
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נינה פינטו אבקסיס | |
| Born | 1971 Ashkelon, Israel |
| Died | 22 July 2019 (aged 48) Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem Yad Ben Zvi |
| Employer(s) | Haaretz Kol Yisrael Ashkelon Academic College Bar-Ilan University |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works |
Nina Pinto-Abecasis (Hebrew: נינה פינטו אבקסיס, 1971 – 22 July 2019) was an Israeli folklorist, writer and educator. Her folklore research specialised in the Haketia (also written as Hakitia or Haquitía) language, a form of Judaeo-Spanish historically spoken by Sephardim in North Africa. She was also known for advocating for the inclusion of nicknames in folklore studies.
Biography
Pinto-Abecasis was born in 1971 in Ashkelon, Israel. Her parents had emigrated to Israel from Tétouan, Morocco, during the 1960s. She wrote a book about her childhood growing up in the Shimshon neighbourhood and her family heritage.[1]
After completing her military service,[1] Pinto-Abecasis studied a bachelor's degree and master's degree in Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[2]
After graduating from university, she had a media career. She covered police and crime affairs for the Haaretz newspaper[3] and wrote and presented a radio programme on Kol Yisrael from 1995 to 1996.[2]
From 2001 to 2008, Pinto-Abecasis was a lecturer at Ashkelon Academic College. She then completed a PhD at Yad Ben Zvi research institute. From 2012, she was a research fellow at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan.[2]
Pinto-Abecasis' folklore research specialised in the Haketia (also written as Hakitia or Haquitía) language, a form of Judaeo-Spanish historically spoken by Sephardim in North Africa.[4][3] She was also known for advocating for the inclusion of nicknames in folklore studies, publishing Towards the inclusion of nicknames in the genres of folklore: The case of the former Jewish community of Tetuan, Morocco in 2014, covering her findings about humour and gender in Hebrew-based nickname practices.[5][6] From 2015, she served as a consultant on the board of the National Authority for the Culture of Ladino.[2][7]
Pinto-Abecasis won the 2018 Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works (also known as the Levi Eshkol Literary Award).[1]
Pinto-Abecasis died from gastrointestinal cancer on 22 July 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel, aged 48.[1][7] She wrote a book about her battle with cancer, which was published around the time of her death.[8]
References
- ^ a b c d לוי, דוד (22 July 2019). "הלכה לעולמה הסופרת כלת פרס רה"מ ובת אשקלון, נינה פינטו-אבקסיס". כאן דרום - אשקלון (in Hebrew). Retrieved 5 March 2026.
- ^ a b c d "נינה פינטו-אבקסיס". Lexicon The new Hebrew literature (in Hebrew). The Ohio State University. Retrieved 5 March 2026.
- ^ a b אדרת, עופר (2019). "עופר אדרת, החייתה את שפתם הנכחדת של יהוד". הארץ (in Hebrew). Retrieved 5 March 2026.
- ^ "Nina Pinto-Abecasis | Bar-Ilan University". Academia.edu. Archived from the original on 12 June 2020. Retrieved 5 March 2026.
- ^ Cohen, Angy (20 October 2015). "The peacock, the ironed man and the half-woman. Nicknames, humor and folklore in the day-to-day speech of Tetouan's Haketia-speaking Jews". The Journal of North African Studies. 20 (5): 889–891. doi:10.1080/13629387.2015.1067357. ISSN 1362-9387. Retrieved 5 March 2026.
- ^ Bentolila, Yaakov. (2011). The Register of the Jewish Burial Society in Tetuan. In Studies in the History and Culture of North African Jewry. Retrieved 5 March 2026.
- ^ a b טוהר, ורד; גדג', דוד (2019). "נינה פינטו-אבקסיס ז"ל : [מתוך המדור: לזכרם]" [In Memoriam: Nina Pinto-Abecasis]. פעמים: פרקי עיון במורשת ישראל במזרח (in Hebrew). 159–160: 287–300. ISSN 0334-4088. Retrieved 5 March 2026.
- ^ סרור, חן ארצי (3 July 2019). ""בתוך הגיהנום הזה, יחד עם מוות באה גם התשוקה"" (in Hebrew).