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 ...
From Roman renaming of Judaea as Syria Palaestina to the UN Partition Plan of 1947, this 2,000-year timeline traces the ...
* * A fascinating history of ancient and modern Hebrew: “After the destruction of the Temple in the first century, Jews were scattered among non-Hebrew-speaking populations. As the Aristide incident ...
Puncturing the largely flattering story of an America that created the conditions for Jews to flourish as never before, the ...