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Items with the tag:

hebrew

Essay

7 Sur­pris­es in the Eng­lish Trans­la­tion of the Torah

Ear­li­er this week, Aviya Kush­n­er wrote about the ​“smash­ing, pos­i­tive­ly dash­ing spec­ta­cle” of mod­ern the­ater per­formed in Hebrew. She is the author of The Gram­mar…
Aviya Kush­n­er
September 10, 2015
Essay

‘My Fair Lady’ in Hebrew?

Aviya Kush­n­er is the author of The Gram­mar of God, a mem­oir of her Jour­ney into the Words and Worlds of the Bible. She will be blog­ging here all week for the Jew­ish…
Aviya Kush­n­er
September 8, 2015
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Chil­dren’s
Alef – Bet Hebrew Let­ter Primer
Rachel Chaput
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Chil­dren’s
Alef is for Abba/​Alef is for Ima
Rebecca Kafka
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Chil­dren’s
Count­ing in Hebrew for Eng­lish Speak­ing Kids
Sarah Mazor
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Chil­dren’s
The Hebrew Alphabet
Yael Rosenberg & Sarah Mazor
Essay

The Pow­er of the Aleph

Rachel Can­tor is the author of the nov­el A High­ly Unlike­ly Sce­nario, or a Neet­sa Piz­za Employee’s Guide to Sav­ing the World (Melville House). In addi­tion to…
Rachel Can­tor
January 13, 2014
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Non­fic­tion
Mas­ter­ing Hebrew Calligraphy
Izzy Pludwinski
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Chil­dren’s
My Alef-Beis
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Non­fic­tion
Embody­ing Hebrew Cul­ture: Aes­thet­ics, Ath­let­ics, and Dance in the Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ty of Man­date Palestine
Nina S. Spiegel
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Jew­ish Text
The Hebrew Bible: A Trans­la­tion with Commentary
Robert Alter
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Non­fic­tion
In the Begin­ning: A Short His­to­ry of the Hebrew Language
Joel M. Hoffman
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Non­fic­tion
Hebrew Talk: 101 Hebrew Roots and the Sto­ries They Tell
Joseph Lewin
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Chil­dren’s
My First Hebrew Word Book
Judye Groner; Pepi Marzel, illus.
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Non­fic­tion
The Hebrew Book in Ear­ly Mod­ern Italy
Joseph R. Hacker and Adam Shear, eds.
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Chil­dren’s
The Aleph Bet Story
Lily & Diana Yacobi
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