Sarah Bunin Benor is an American linguist and scholar of Jewish languages.
[1] Benor graduated from Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in North Bethesda, Maryland.
[1][3] While working at the Columbia University Libraries as a college student, she stumbled across references to rare languages such as Judeo-Italian and Judaeo-Spanish, which led to her interest in studying linguistics, especially Jewish languages.
[4] Her research has focused on Jewish languages, Yiddish, and American Jews.
[5][6] Benor is author of Becoming Frum: How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism (2012), which won the 2013 Sami Rohr Choice Award for Jewish Literature.