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

The Community Hebrew Program at VBS, according to VBS, “will continue AJU’s legacy of enriching Jewish life through ...

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.

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 ...

The conference, entitled "Hebrew as a Treasure of Human Heritage," will mark a century since the passing of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, who is widely regarded as the father of modern Hebrew.

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 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 ...

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 world's oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible will go on display in London next week before an auction in May where it could sell for up to $50 million, Sotheby's said on Wednesday.

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 ...