The Making of Modern Hebrew. Two books on the revival of an ancient tongue. November 22, 2008. By Yehudah Mirsky.

And, by immersing yourself in modern Hebrew, you can deepen your connection to Israel and its culture, finding solace and understanding during this turbulent time.

Their intent was to raise the first Hebrew-speaking child in modern history. When Ben-Yehuda and his wife, Devorah, immigrated to Palestine in 1881, Hebrew was only a written language and recited ...

In a world where the echoes of history often shape our present, language stands as a powerful conduit for preserving culture and identity. For Jews worldwide, Modern Hebrew has emerged as more ...

Hebrew revivalists chose a difficult way of life by speaking only Hebrew, before it could meet the needs of modern life. Gradually, the language was standardized in the early 20th century.

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 ...

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the late inventor of modern Hebrew, was feted recently in his native Belarus, from where he emigrated in 1881.. Ben-Yehuda, who died in 1922, was instrumental in Hebrew’s ...

But this doesn’t mean that modern Hebrew can’t be used as a bridge to biblical Hebrew, over which contemporary students can cross to one from the other. What matters is getting to the other ...

The text relates how King Mesha of Moab (in modern Jordan) defeated the Kingdom of Israel. Some scholars believe that a word on the stone slab with several Hebrew letters missing may be a reference to ...

The event will take place in the Steinhardt Hall Auditorium at Penn Hillel. Credit: Hannah Lazar Gil Hovav — the great-grandson of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the founder of modern Hebrew — will speak at an ...

A nonprofit that launches modern-Hebrew-language public schools is hoping New Haven gets a chance to offer that greeting. The New York-based nonprofit, Hebrew Public, is working to finish an ...