Ivan Kalmar is Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Sociolinguistics in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Professor Kalmar’s areas of interest are: I. Semiotics; II. Popular Culture; III. Jews; IV. Sociolinguistics. He is currently working on a project investigating the relationship between orientalism and the Jews. Professor Kalmar published extensively in the fields of semiotics, anthropology and popular culture: Anthropological Linguistics and Semiotics (Quirk Press, 1995; 2nd ed. 1996), in popular culture with The Trotskys, Freuds, and Woody Allens: Portrait of a culture (Viking, 1993; 2nd ed. Toronto: Penguin, 1994), as well as numerous essays included in books such as a forthcoming essay entitled "The Jew As a Sign" in Marcel Danesi, ed.,1995 Toronto Semiotic Conference (St. Martin's Press, forthcoming), and "When Jews wanted to be Arabs" to be included in Devora Newmark, ed.,Jews and Artists (Queens-McGill Press, forthcoming). Professor Kalmar has also published numerous essays in the field of socio-linguistics such as the volume Case and context in Inuktitut (Eskimo) (National Museum of Man, 1979) and the article “Are there really no primitive languages?” in David Olson, N. Torrance, and Angela Hildyard, eds., The nature and consequences of literacy (Cambridge University Press, 1985), to mention only a few.