# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yehoshua-blau
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:14:43.631Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yehoshua-blau"
name: "Yehoshua Blau"
slug: "yehoshua-blau"
description: "Yehoshua Blau, also spelled Joshua was an Israeli scholar of Arabic language and literature, previously Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1985, he received the Israel Prize for Linguistics and Hebrew language."
tagline: "Israeli linguist of Semitic languages (1919–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yehoshua_Blau.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1919-09-22"
deathDate: "2020-10-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.608424
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Yehoshua Blau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B4%D8%B9_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88"
    title: "يوشع بلاو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Blau"
    title: "Joshua Blau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehoshua_Blau"
    title: "Yehoshua Blau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehoshua_Blau"
    title: "Yehoshua Blau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehoshua_Blau"
    title: "Yehoshua Blau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%A2_%D7%91%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%95"
    title: "יהושע בלאו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Blau"
    title: "Joshua Blau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehoshua_Blau"
    title: "Yehoshua Blau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%83%2C_%D0%98%D0%B5%D1%85%D0%BE%D1%88%D1%83%D0%B0"
    title: "Блау, Иехошуа"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehoshua_Blau"
    title: "Yehoshua Blau"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2402627"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump