Book Review | What We Talk About When We Talk About Hebrew
In What We Talk About When We Talk About Hebrew, Naomi Sokoloff and Nancy Berg, both professors of Hebrew and comparative literature, successfully present a number of lenses through which the wondrous revival of the Hebrew language—and its current decline on American college campuses—can be viewed.
After Eurovision, Netanyahu’s Translation Transgression
Bibi was just trying to be cool. When congratulating Israeli contestant Netta Barzilai for her Eurovision song, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent her a tweet. It worked in Hebrew. “Netta, Kapara alayich” he wrote.
Book Review // Babel in Zion
Babel in Zion:Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920–1948 by Liora R. Halperin / Yale University Press / 2014, pp. 328, $40
Opinion // Israel: “Close to Perfect”
Rachel Fraenkel, mother of Naftali Fraenkel, one of the three Israeli teens whose kidnapping and murder started the current crisis, recently gave her first lengthy interview to Yediot Daily. It was clear that she is an impressive woman, wise, calm and sober, and that her tragedy has catapulted her into a yet-to-be-defined leadership position. But what people all around me are still talking about is the way this interview ended.
Modern Hebrew: The Epic Transformation of a Language
While teaching modern Hebrew in England and the United States, Norman Berdichevsky got a shock. Many of his students, he found, “were unable to utter...
Will the Real Shrek Please Stand Up?
Children love Shrek, the sweet green ogre and beloved cartoon character who starred, thanks to DreamWorks, in “his” first flick in 2001. What most don’t...
How Do You Say “Fail” in Hebrew?
by Rebecca Borison
With technology comes the chance of errors, some more public than others...
Ruta Kupfer of Haaretz recently revealed one such technology-related error on the...
How Do You Say "Middle-earth" in Hebrew?
Thank you, Internet, for this gem: a Hebrew edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic, The Hobbit, in Hebrew. And even better than the cover, the book...
How Do You Say “Middle-earth” in Hebrew?
Thank you, Internet, for this gem: a Hebrew edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic, The Hobbit, in Hebrew. And even better than the cover, the book...