A chair of Judeo-Arabic studies has been established at the School of Oriental Languages here. The creation of the chair was decided because of the large number of North African Jews, some 100,000 who now live in France.
The language of Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian Jews will be included in the new syllabus of studies. A chair of Yiddish now exists at the school and a chair of Ladino, the language of many Sephardic Jews, is being contemplated.
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