Not sure why he omits this, but the author's name is Ariel Sabar and his father is Yona Sabar who is the one of the most influential scholars in the preservatio

Not sure why he omits this, but the author's name is Ariel Sabar and his father is Yona Sabar who is the one of the most influential scholars in the preservation of Aramaic. I would highly recommend Ariel's book, My Father's Paradise. It documents the life of his father being born into the poor and uneducated, but happy, Jewish community of Kurdish Iraq, being stripped of his property and exiled by the Iraqi government as part of the Jewish exodus in the 50s, and going from a refugee to a PHD in Linguistics from Yale.