One of the curiosities in “The Story of Hebrew” by Lewis Glinert (Princeton University Press) is that the author manages to write a history of the Hebrew language without using a single Hebrew letter ...

For nearly 2,000 years, Hebrew was a dead language. But in the 19th and 20th centuries, this liturgical language made a comeback as a modern tongue. Its revival is unprecedented, said Nancy Berg, a ...

Why Learn Hebrew at CU Boulder? Hebrew is one the oldest, continually used languages. It is the language of the ancient Israelites and the Hebrew Bible or The Old Testament from before the Common Era, ...

The revival of Hebrew in the late 19th and early 20th centuries is often flattened into a tidy legend centered on Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. Still, the historical record tells a far more complex and global ...

Shalom ברוכים הבאים and welcome to the Hebrew Language, Literature, and Culture program at Brandeis! Our program offers close to twenty beginning, intermediate, and advanced level courses to promote ...

All cultures have a tendency to make their building blocks into part of a collective myth, oversimplifying them in textbooks and in the collective consciousness of their members. We Jews are hardly ...

Some Hebrew students face a difficult task: describing themselves or what they are doing, partly due to the language’s strict gender rules. But thanks to a CU Boulder student and an instructor, a ...