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 ...

As the name suggests, the Hebrew Bible is written, mostly, in Hebrew. But what is the earliest history of this language? What language did the ancient Israelites speak? This episode examines the ...

Progress made during the past half century by the Hebrew language in reconstituting itself as a living tongue was cefebrated by Anglo Jewry during a period set aside as “Hebrew Week.” Sermons at ...

This week in history: Revival of the Hebrew language The process began on October 13th 1881, as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and his friends agreed to exclusively speak Hebrew in their conversations.

Prof. Vardit Ringvald returned once again to the international conference of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew (NAPH), which took place in London in June 2025. Prof. Ringvald presented ...

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 ...

Introductory course develops skills of reading, speaking, comprehension, and writing through various techniques, with an emphasis on a solid grammatical basis and awareness of idiomatic usage of the ...

Japanese pioneer Hebraist Takamitsu Muraoka died last week in Leiden, the Netherlands, at age 88, after suffering a stroke a few weeks earlier and never fully recovering. A specialist in Semitic ...

I was sitting in front of a group of Hebrew educators and my heart ached. They looked confused and worried and you could see there was a heavy burden on their mind. They kept telling me how they are ...