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	Hebrew Language - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Modern Hebrew was developed in the 19th and 20th centuries from the ancient written form of the language.
		Hebrew was preserved, however, as the language of ritual and sacred writing and through the centuries has undergone periodic literary revivals.
		Hebrew vocabulary was further augmented in the Middle Ages by the Arabic influence on philosophic writing and through translations of Arabic philosophical and scientific works.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761553185__1/Hebrew_Language.html (662 words)

	Hebrew
		Hebrew was revived as a spoken language during the late 19th and early 20th century as Modern Hebrew, replacing Arabic, Yiddish, Russian, and a variety of other languages spoken by Jews who emigrated to Israel.
		The revival of Hebrew is intimately associated with the name of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda,who was born in Russia and who came to Palestine, then a province of the Ottoman empire, in 1881 with revival plans for the Hebrew language.
		Hebrew is a Category II language in terms of difficulty for speakers of English.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/august/Hebrew.html (1513 words)

	Hebrew language - Theo
		Hebrew was reborn as a spoken language during the late 19th and early 20th century as Modern Hebrew, replacing Arabic, Ladino, Yiddish, and other languages of the Jewish diaspora as the spoken language of the majority of the Jewish people living in Israel.
		While the term "Hebrew" as a nationality is customarily used to refer to the ancient Israelites, it has been postulated that the classical Hebrew language was essentially identical to the language spoken by their neighbors, the Phoenicians and Canaanites.
		Hebrew is therefore not spoken by them nor is it understood much by the vast majority of Jews in many areas outside of Israel where there are large Jewish populations, especially in countries such as Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Russia, South Africa, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
	forumhost.us /theo/index.php?title=Hebrew_language (5430 words)

	Hebrew Translation - Translate Hebrew Language Translator
		Hebrew was also used as a language of communication among Jews from different countries, particularly for the purpose of international trade.
		Hebrew is one of the official languages of Israel.
		Hebrew has two kinds of stress (taa'm): on the last syllable (milra') and on the penultimate syllable (the one preceding the last, mile'l).
	www.translation-services-usa.com /languages/hebrew.shtml (4645 words)

	Ashkenazi
		For the Ashkenazi Jews the studies of Hebrew, the Torah and the Talmud was more than just a way of understanding their religion, it was also a way of protecting themselves against the influence of the societies around them.
		The rituals of the Ashkenazi were of the Palestinian traditions.
		The language of the Ashkenazi Jews was Yiddish, a language close to German.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/jud_ashk.htm (562 words)

	Ashkenazi Jews information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		When the Ashkenazi community first began to develop in the Middle Ages, the centers of Jewish religious authority were in the Islamic world, at Baghdad and in Islamic Spain.
		The Yiddish language, once spoken by the vast majority of Ashkenazi Jewry, is heavily influenced by Hebrew and Aramaic, but not by Greek or Latin.
		Ashkenazi Jews developed the Hasidic movement as well as major Jewish academic centers across Poland, Russia, and Lithuania in the generations after emigration from the west.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Ashkenazi_Jews (5006 words)

	Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures-Hebrew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This is an introduction to the language of the Hebrew Bible and to Biblical texts in the original.
		Classical Hebrew literature spans 3000 years from the Biblical period until the advent of Jewish 'modernity' in the 18th-19th centuries, and reflects the lives and values of Jews in their ancient homeland and across the Ashkenazi and Sephardi diasporas.
		Medieval Hebrew genres include the theological and erotic poetry of Spain and Italy, the laments of the Crusades, the travelogue, ethical fables, philosophical essays, and Messianic folklore.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~damell/programs/hebrew.html (1453 words)

	The Real Nazis: Ashkenazi:
		Ashkenazi (אַשְׁכֲּנָזִי, Standard Hebrew Aškanazi, Tiberian Hebrew ʾAškănāzî) Jews or Ashkenazic Jews, also called Ashkenazim (אַשְׁכֲּנָזִים, Standard Hebrew Aškanazim, Tiberian Hebrew ʾAškănāzîm), are Jews who are descendants of Jews from Germany, Poland, Austria and Eastern Europe.
		Ashkenaz is a traditional Hebrew word for Germany, and in particular to the area along the Rhine where the allemani tribe once lived (compare the French and Spanish words Allemagne and Alemania, respectively, for Germany).
		The word ashkenazi is often used in medieval rabbinic literature.
	thezionazireport.org /ashkenazi.htm (985 words)

	The Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew (CoSIH)
		Variation in language is observable in geographical and ethnic dialects, in written and spoken varieties, and in distinct speech patterns among different genders, socioeconomic classes, age groups, professions, and the like.
		Hebrew was reintroduced as a full-fledged language in the twentieth century.
		Hebrew is still changing rapidly because of immense waves of immigration and swift changes in Israeli society.
	www.tau.ac.il /humanities/semitic/cosih.html (7704 words)

	Words and their History by Kutscher
		Aramaic was important in another respect: it served as a medium for the introduction into Hebrew of words from Akkadian, the language of the Babylonians and Assyrians, though it is true that many Akkadian terms found their way into Hebrew in a period preceding the influences of Aramaic.
		Hebrew, and Persian rule in Babylonia (until it conquest by the Arabs in the seventh century CE) brought them into the Aramaic of the Babylonian Talmud, from which they entered Israeli Hebrew.
		The number of Latin words in Mishnaic Hebrew is comparatively small, in spite of the Roman conquest of Palestine (from the first century BCE onwards).
	www.adath-shalom.ca /hebrew_words_history.htm (4024 words)

	hebrew \| English \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		In Israel, it is the de facto language of the state and the people, as well as being one of the two official languages (together with Arabic), and is spoken by a majority of the population.
		the language of the Hebrew nation, and that in which the Old Testament is written, with the exception of a few portions in Chaldee.
		The Hebrew is one of the oldest languages of which we have any knowledge.
	www.babylon.com /definition/hebrew (823 words)

	The History and Development of Yiddish
		Unlike most languages, which are spoken by the residents of a particular area, or by members of a particular nationality, Yiddish, at the height of its usage, was spoken by millions of Jews of different nationalities all over the globe.
		The fact that the Jews had a language of their own that was not understood by outsiders made it easy to separate themselves by developing a highly centralized economic and cultural life.
		Several populations use it as their main language: primarily the generation that lived during and immediately after the Holocaust, and the ultra-Orthodox populations living in New York and parts of Israel.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/yiddish.html (1886 words)

	CMMR: Israel's Success in Teaching Hebrew Linked to Ideology
		She was given Hebrew lessons for part of the day but was left in the third-grade classroom the rest of the time to follow along as best she could with the help of other Russian students who could translate for her.
		But teachers and professors of language education note that Israel's success in teaching Hebrew has as much to do with the ideology of the Jewish state and the immigrants themselves as it does with immersion and the national education system, factors that do not apply to California.
		Yes, they can speak conversational Hebrew and it becomes their children's mother tongue, but Education Ministry officials and professors of education say there are no in-depth studies to show whether immigrants learn academic Hebrew as well as natives do.
	www-rcf.usc.edu /~cmmr/L.A.Times_May30.html (1866 words)

	Hebrew at Dartmouth/FAQ
		Ivrit came to be a common name for the Hebrew language in the Middle Ages -- we don't know why -- but actually, most Jews in Eastern Europe 100 years ago would have called Hebrew not Ivrit but Loshn Koydesh ('the holy tongue').
		The use of the name Ivrit for Modern Hebrew was in fact a loud political statement, to the effect that Hebrew was no longer going to be a holy language of the synagogue and Cheder, but a secular modern language.
		Of all the pronunciations that have survived, by far the closest to ancient Hebrew is the Yemenite.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~damell/hebrew/faq.html (504 words)

	Ashkenazi Hebrew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As it is used parallel with Modern Hebrew, its phonological differences are clearly recognized:
		א ʾālep̄ and ע ʿáyin are completely silent at all times in most forms of Ashkenazi Hebrew, where they are frequently both pronounced as a glottal stop in Ashkenazi-style modern Hebrew.
		ת ṯāw is pronounced /s/ in Ashkenazi Hebrew, unless there is a Dagesh in the ת, where it would be pronounced /t/.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ashkenazi_Hebrew_language (560 words)

	When Jewish Means Ashkenazi
		An Ashkenazi Jew openly can practice her traditions within the Jewish community and expect that other practicing members of the community immediately will understand what she is doing and will be able to join in with her.
		An Ashkenazi Jew can assume and expect that the Jewish community institutions and resources will provide information about her history, culture, and religious traditions.
		Ashkenazi privilege lies in the assumption that anything billed as "Jewish" will reflect Ashkenazi identity; and that if it does not, whatever it is must not be valid.
	www.loolwa.com /articles/pgs/ashkenazi.html (2482 words)

	The Hebrew Alphabet
		There are a variety of Hebrew script styles used today, though the Hebrew script used for sacred writing is called STA”M (an acronym for Sifrei Torah (Torah scrolls), Tefillin (phylacteries), and Mezuzot).
		Bet Ari - Ketav Ari is the Hebrew Script written in accordance to the tradition of Rabbi Isaac Luria, 1534-1572 (also known as the Arizal).
		In each case of script style, however, there are a many rules governing the formation of the letters (collectively known as soferut) so that there be no confusion between the letters written in the sacred writings.
	www.hebrew4christians.com /Grammar/Unit_One/Aleph-Bet/aleph-bet.html (569 words)

	Ashkenazi Jewish Ethnicity Society
		FEATURE - Anti-Israel "rabbis" face fallout from Jewish worldReuters India, India - 5 hours agoIsrael's Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger called on rabbis worldwide to ban the Jewish participants -- who were from the United States and Europe -- from...
		- the Jewish News weekly of Northern California, CA - Dec 7, 2006For example, the panel?s moderator, Dafna Wu, was born in Brazil to an Ashkenazi Jewish mother and a Shanghainese father.
		- Introduction to Yiddish in the German language from the University of Duesseldorf, Germany.
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Society/Ethnicity/Jewish/Ashkenazi (868 words)

	JEWISH MUSIC INSTITUTE - Ashkenazi Music
		'Ashkenazi' (Hebrew for Germany) refers to the Jews who settled in the Rhineland of South West Germany and Northern France from about the third century CE.
		Ashkenazi cantorial song reached a very high level of sophistication and ornamentation.
		The vernacular language was Yiddish, based on medieval German with Slavic and Hebrew words and written in Hebrew script.
	www.jmi.org.uk /ashkenazimusic/index.html (182 words)

	Mark Lieber - Yiddish
		For almost a thousand years, Yiddish was the primary language spoken by Ashkenazi Jews in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
		A majority of its speakers were of the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust, and those that were lucky enough to escape quickly abandoned the language in order to assimilate into their new cultural surroundings.
		Perhaps the most distinctive characteristic of the Yiddish language is that it is written using the Hebrew alphabet.
	www.stanford.edu /~marklieb/yiddish.html (456 words)

	Hebrew Language \| Semitic Languages \| Afro-Asiatic Languages \| Questia.com Online Library
		Like all languages, Hebrew was an inherently conservative...and the...
		"Hebrew" is of interest not just as...concerned that their own brand of Hebrew language and orthography be codified...Yehezkel...
		...schools and by such bodies as the Hebrew Language Academy and the Israel Broadcasting...most pervasive features of Hebrew child language; and it affords one of the...great...
	www.questia.com /library/sociology-and-anthropology/hebrew-language.jsp (393 words)

	Hebrew Transliterator - Hebrew Transliteration Hebrew to English Transliteration Transliterate Transliterator
		The software also includes and Hebrew Virtual Keyboard and a vowel editor for further text entry and text customization if need be.
		Now say the of prayer you would like to READ in original Hebrew is the Mourner's Kaddish or for that matter a Shabbat Song.
		If not studied as a child, Hebrew is a safa kasha (difficult language).
	www.jewishsoftware.com /products/Hebrew_Transliterator_781.asp (868 words)

	Yale University Library - Hebraica Team: About Hebrew
		Yale University Library - Hebraica Team: About Hebrew
		Modern Hebrew, the only vernacular tongue based on an ancient written form, was developed in the 19th and 20th centuries.
		The original Hebrew alphabet consisted only of consonants vowel signs and pronunciation currently accepted for biblical Hebrew were created by scholars known as Masoretes after the 5th century AD.
	www.library.yale.edu /cataloging/hebraicateam/hebrew.htm (593 words)

	Amazon.com: Language in Time of Revolution: Books: Benjamin Harshav (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Obstinate Hebrews: Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815 (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) by Ronald Schechter
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		Second Aliya, New York, Eastern Europe, Tel Aviv, United States, Israeli Hebrew, Berl Katznelson, First Aliya, Holy Tongue, Language Committee, State of Israel, Soviet Union, Sholem Aleichem, Ashkenazi Hebrew, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Pale of Settlement, Ahad Ha-Am, Renaissance Period, Rishon Le-Tsiyon, Uri-Tsvi Grinberg, Russian Revolution, Ha-Poel Ha-Tsayir, Mendele Moykher Sforim, Poaley Tsiyon, Third Aliya
	www.amazon.com /Language-Time-Revolution-Benjamin-Harshav/dp/0520079582 (1127 words)

	Definition of Ashkenazi - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
		Etymology: Late Hebrew AshkenAzI, from AshkenAz, medieval rabbinical name for Germany
		Learn more about "Ashkenazi" and related topics at Britannica.com
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	www.webster.com /cgi-bin/dictionary?va=ashkenazi (48 words)

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