On sabbatical until March 31, 2026 before leaving the Hebrew University

Research Interests: Spanish linguistics, History of the Ibero-Romance languages, sociolinguistics, language variation, Sephardic Studies and Ladino

As a specialist in Spanish philology, Ibero-romance languages, and Judeo-Spanish (Ladino), her research and teaching focus on historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, language variation, and endangered languages. With an M.A. (a seven-year degree) from the Freie Universität Berlin and a PhD from the Hebrew University, she was a research fellow at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) before joining the Department of Romance and Latin American Studies in 2009. Among her publications is the book Geografía lingüística del judeoespañol: estudio sincrónico y diacrónico. Completed projects: The Sephardim - Through Their Own Eyes and Their Relationship with the Spanish Language I (Spanish Ministry of Science and Development, Grants SB2006-0005 and JCI-2008-2348), From Old Spanish to Judeo-Spanish: Formation of New Linguistic Varieties Not Subjected to Standardizing Pressure in the Context of Migration (16th-17th Centuries) (La Lettre Sepharade and the Israel Sciences Foundation, Grant 473/11), Traditional Judeo-Spanish (18th-19th Centuries), according to the Series Meam loez (ISF 486/19). Her current research is A Descriptive Grammar of Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) (ISF 1505/24), along with the projects CoDiAJe - The Annotated Diachronic Corpus of Judeo-Spanish, CoOrAJe - The Annotated Oral Corpus of Judeo-Spanish, and Civic Responses after Terror Attacks in Europe: Language, Communication and Society.

Since November 12, 2015, Prof. Aldina Quintana has been a corresponding academician of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) for Israel.