Israeli scholarship is widely cited the world over. But if state linguists have their way, much of that research will become a whole lot less accessible to those who don’t speak Hebrew. The Academy of ...

The enforcement of Hebrew as a compulsory spoken language is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment, even in Palestine. Two young men, Berditchevski and Katz, members of the “Gdud Maginei Ha ‘Safa” ...

For nearly 2,000 years, Hebrew was a dead language. But in the 19th and 20th centuries, this liturgical language made a comeback as a modern tongue. Its revival is unprecedented, said Nancy Berg, a ...

The first Hebrew schools were established in these communities; Hebrew increasingly became a spoken language of daily affairs, and finally became a systematic and national language. Yet Ben Yehuda's ...

A total of 165,632 Jews of the total Jewish population of 175,006 in Palestine record Hebrew as their spoken tongue, according to census figures made known. In the previous census only 82,000 ...

The word parliament originates from the French “parler,” meaning “to talk.” Pondering it is a good way to capture in a nutshell the whole brouhaha over the use of Arabic in the Knesset. Does “to talk” ...