Aron Dolgopolsky was born in Moskow 1930. M.A. in Linguistics, Ph.D. in Comparative Linguistic, formerly Research Fellow in the USSR Academy of Sciences, since 1976 he has been teaching in the University of Haifa. He has written more than 200 publications in the field of comparative linguistics. Among them: A Long-Range Comparison of Some Languages of Northern Eurasia (1964) and Sravnitel'no-istoric'eskaja fonetika Kushitskix jazykov (1973). Aron Dolgopolsky's From Proto-Semitic to Hebrew - Phonology is the summing up of many years' research in the field of Hamito-Semitic (Afro-Asiatic) historical linguistics. The work aims at reconstructing the earliest phases of the Hebrew phonology since Proto-Semitic times and even earlier, taking into account all branches of this linguistic family as well as Nostratic and long-range ties.  Every phonological feature is thoroughly discussed on the basis of a rich bibliography (over 600 titles). This book represents the fullest and richest research in Hebrew diachronical linguistics and will be most profitable to Hebrew philologists and linguists, as well as specialists of other Hamito-Semitic languages and of every branch of historical linguistics.