When we confess, we bang our chests on top of where our hearts are. Yet, the heart in classical Hebrew thought is not the seat of our feelings or love (‘With all my heart’) but the seat of our ...

Mishnaic and modern Hebrew. Eventually, after years of study, I enrolled in a doctoral program in Jewish history at the University of Chicago, where I had to pass a rigorous Hebrew proficiency ...

poems and works of fiction were written in Hebrew slowly creating a modern Hebrew idiom appropriate for the times. Under the influence of Jewish nationalism and Zionism, modern Hebrew was revived as a ...

Israeli reporters, in turn, faced their own challenge: How to translate “chickenshit” into Hebrew. Modern Hebrew is rich with phrases alluding to the Bible and rabbinic literature. Swear words ...

Izzy Pludwinski's Brush Aleph-bet, 2007, "The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter," Brandeis University Press. Modern Hebrew language is an indispensable key to the fullness of Jewish civilization and creates ...

Yehuda, known as the father of modern Hebrew, worked to revive the language as a spoken one, he believed it would be a tool to rapidly foster a sense of unity among olim, Jewish immigrants to the land ...

Earlier in her career, Dr. Ringvald served as Brandeis University’s Hebrew program director, in addition to director of Arabic, Asian and Romance languages. Dr. Ringvald is the primary author of ...