When asked to name Jewish languages, most people would say Hebrew and Yiddish. Some might also mention Ladino or Aramaic. It’s unlikely that they would know about Juhuri, Bukhori and Judeo-Median — ...

A prominent specialist in Semitic languages, Muraoka was proud to describe himself as the first Japanese student to complete a PhD at the Hebrew University The post Takamitsu Muraoka, Japanese pioneer ...

Kayitz Kef/Hebrew at Camp gives American Jewish youth the ability to converse in Modern Israeli Hebrew and to own contemporary Israeli culture as part of who they are. Hebrew provides rich and ...

What are the Jewish languages? Some are well known — Hebrew is the language of the Torah and of Israel, and Yiddish was the language of the shtetls and the great centers of European Jewish culture.

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 ...

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 ...

Denise Lockett, an African American and Catholic grandmother, sat in the lobby of a District charter school waiting to deliver lunch to her 9-year-old grandson. “I’m Kobe’s savta,” she said with a ...

Whenever a speaker of a Jewish language dies, we lose an opportunity to learn and teach more about the nuances of this rich language and culture. Flory Jagoda devoted much of her life to preserving ...

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 ...

Feature / After the Holocaust, Israel was hailed as the solution to an essentially antisemitic debate. Now, as another ...