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 ...
Through a conversation about education, Jewish identity, and the place of Jews in American history, we consider why richer ...
As the 250th anniversary celebrations reach a fever pitch this summer across the country, an innovative new course at ...
Eliezer Ben Yehuda (1858-1922), the “Father of the Modern Hebrew Language,” is best known for one of the truly great socio-linguistic events in world history: his virtually single-handed revival of ...
Braun Professor of American Jewish History Emeritus at Brandeis University. He also is the past president of the Association ...
Retiring from the classroom after 50 years in academia, every journalist’s favorite Jewish historian is enjoying a victory lap. Journalists I know joke that the only Jewish historian they ever need to ...
History matters. Facts matter. Identity matters. And when history is rewritten for political purposes, everyone loses. One of ...
The oldest recorded alphabet may be Hebrew. According to a controversial new study by archaeologist and ancient inscription specialist Douglas Petrovich, Israelites in Egypt took 22 ancient Egyptian ...
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Becoming Jewish: ‘I realized what I had unknowingly felt all my life,’ says former Latter-day Saint
Note to readers • This the first story in a special Salt Lake Tribune series about how and why Utahns convert to various ...
On a recent Saturday in Brooklyn, hundreds of Hebrew Israelites assembled to hear their leader speak. Rabbi Capers C. Funnye was to be formally inaugurated as chief rabbi — and to lay out his historic ...
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