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Biographical Note

Dr. Max A. Luria (1892-1966) earned his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degrees from Columbia University. His first position was teaching Spanish at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, New York, between 1914 and 1926, after which he taught both at City and Hunter Colleges.

       Increasingly, Dr. Luria’s interest was piqued by and his research concentrated on the study of (Spanish) Ladino dialects, specifically the Judeo-Spanish dialect. In fact, he would describe it in A Study of the Monastir Dialect of Judeo-Spanish based on Oral Material collected in Monastir, Yugo-Slavia [1930, Paris]. He also published Lecturas elementales, con ejercicios (with drawings by Herbert Deland Williams) [1922, MacMillan Co.], New York City.

       Dr. Max Luria joined Brooklyn College the year it was founded, in 1930. He taught in the Romance Languages Department from 1930 until 1959 (it would eventually be renamed the Department of Modern Languages). Between 1953 and 1954, Dr. Luria was a Fulbright lecturer in English at the University of Athens.

       Dr. Max A. Luria died in 1966 at his home in Brooklyn, New York. His wife, Fannie Edna Werfel, survived him.

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