As any child can tell you, it means "electricity." The reinvention of Hebrew as a modern, spoken language is an astounding story, underappreciated not only abroad but even in Israel (which may be ...

The Consortium for the Teaching of Hebrew Language and Culture aims to transform Hebrew teaching and learning on an international scale. Izzy Pludwinski's Brush Aleph-bet, 2007, "The Beauty of the ...

Hebrew revivalists wanted to expand the language beyond the abstract concepts in the Bible—they wanted to use it to talk about modern events, politics, philosophy, and medicine. Among the ...

Under the influence of Jewish nationalism and Zionism, modern Hebrew was revived as a spoken language by Hebrew language advocates, none more important than Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. Ben-Yehuda coined many ...

No less than modern Hebrew, modern English is also a “hybrid language,” the Germanic base of the original tongue of the Angles and Saxons having been lexically and grammatically transformed by ...

Learning a language involves reading ... Parizher’s school aimed to teach both prayer-book and modern Hebrew. His experience paralleled those of the subjects interviewed in this piece.

A new illustrated children’s book tells the story of a Jewish boy who has no friends and whose parents won’t let him play with anyone, fearful that other children actually may talk to him.

Modern Hebrew literature and culture, Hebrew language, and Hebrew language pedagogy. Students may double count up to two courses with another major or minor. A maximum of two semester course credits ...

"The Limits of Holocaust Representation in the Fiction of the 1948 Generation according to Moshe Shamir's "The Second Stutter." Studies in Israeli and Modern Jewish Society [Iyunim Betekumat Israel] ...