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	Hebrew language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hebrew, long extinct outside of Jewish liturgical purposes, was revived at the end of the 19th century by the Jewish linguist Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, owing to the ideology of Zionism.
		Mishnaic Hebrew from the 1st to the 3rd or 4th century CE, corresponding to the Roman Period after the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and represented by the bulk of the Mishnah and Tosefta within the Talmud and by the Dead Sea Scrolls, notably the Bar Kokhba Letters and the Copper Scroll.
		Hebrew functioned as the local mother tongue, Aramaic functioned as the international language with the rest of the Mideast, and eventually Greek functioned as another international language with the eastern areas of the Roman Empire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hebrew_language (5430 words)

	Israeli literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Israeli literature is the literature of the people or State of Israel.
		It is mostly written in Hebrew and the history of Israeli literature is interesting because it is mostly the product of the revival of the Hebrew language as a spoken language in modern times.
		Since the middle of the nineteenth century, the Hebrew language was increasingly used for speaking as well as writing modern forms of prose, poetry and drama.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Israeli_literature (747 words)

	hebrew\hebrew.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Hebrew alphabet of twenty-two letters (five of which have a different form when they appear at the end of a word) consists entirely of consonants.
		Hebrew was spoken by the Patriarchs during the Biblical period.
		In the post-Biblical period, Aramaic gradually replaced Hebrew as the spoken language, but Hebrew was still used as the language of ritual, prayer, literature, and written communication for centuries.
	bama.ua.edu /~clc/hebrew/hebrew.htm (525 words)

	Dr Ghil`ad Zuckermann
		‘relexified’, that is Yiddish with Hebrew vocabulary (cf.
		In the context of Israeli, it could be argued that Yiddish is a primary contributor to Israeli because it was the mother tongue of the vast majority of the revivalists (e.g.
		Israeli children should not be indoctrinated to believe that they speak the language of Isaiah – unless the teacher refers to the twentieth-century Israeli polymath and visionary Isaiah Leibowitz.
	www.zuckermann.org /mosaic.html (3369 words)

	Israeli Hebrew by David Tene – Ariel 25
		The Committee assumed that this was the Hebrew pronunciation before Hebrew ceased to be a spoken language, and probably considered their decision to be sufficient for this pronunciation to materialize.
		On the one hand, they are "deaf" to the distinctive oppositions in Hebrew, if these distinctions are not relevant in their primary language, and, on the other, they impose irrelevant distinctions on Hebrew only because they are relevant in their primary language and its rules of free variation.
		Although, at first glance, native Israeli Hebrew appears to be a mechanical mixture of components, which would be in flagrant opposition to the very idea of linguistic structure, closer scrutiny shows that this is not the case.
	www.adath-shalom.ca /israeli_hebrew_tene.htm (7560 words)

	languagehat.com: Comment on HEBREW OR ISRAELI?
		Fascinating and multifaceted, Israeli (Zuckermann 1999) possesses distinctive socio-historical characteristics such as the lack of a continuous chain of native speakers from spoken Hebrew to Israeli, the non-Semitic mother tongues spoken by the revivalists, and the European impact on literary Hebrew.
		The impact of the founder population on Israeli is incomparable with that of later immigrants.
		Yiddish is a primary contributor to Israeli because it was the mother tongue of the vast majority of revivalists and first pioneers in Eretz Yisrael at the CRUCIAL period of the beginning of Israeli.
	www.languagehat.com /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=2025 (3441 words)

	The Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew (CoSIH) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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.
		For example, an elderly Jewish person, Israeli born, whose father is of Asian or African origin with minimal education is unlikely to be recorded in contextual variety 1, since he or she is considered to be part of a traditional family.
	www.tau.ac.il /humanities/semitic/cosih.html (7704 words)

	Language in Israeli Society and Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Hebrew was thus entrenched as the language of instruction in Jewish schools and it grew in the university into a language equipped to deal with modern life and technology.
		Hebrew thus continued to penetrate immigrant groups, succeeding often in a generation or two to replace the original language.
		For Israelis, Arabic is the language of the surrounding Arab States, states which have been engaged in war with Israel since its establishment and that continue to be seen as potential threats to national identity.
	www.biu.ac.il /HU/lprc/ijslpap.htm (8053 words)

	Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures-Hebrew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This course explores Israeli cinema in the context of the social and historical backdrop of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the painful emergence of a new Jewish-Israeli identity in the shadow of the Holocaust and constant warfare.
		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)

	Hebrew language, alphabet and pronunciation
		The modern Hebrew script was developed from a script known as Proto-Hebrew/Early Aramaic.
		Hebrew is a member of the Canaanite group of Semitic languages.
		In the late 19th and early 20th century the Zionist movement brought about the revivial of Hebrew as a widely-used spoken language, and it became the official languge of Israel in 1948.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/hebrew.htm (558 words)

	Hebrew College News Releases
		Gila Ramras-Rauch, internationally distinguished scholar of Hebrew, Israeli and Holocaust literature and leading authority on the writings of Aharon Appelfeld, died on February 16, 2005, in her home in Brookline, Mass.
		The Lewis H. and Selma Weinstein Professor of Jewish Literature at Hebrew College, Boston, where she taught for 23 years, Ramras-Rauch believed that Jewish literature is a window on the human condition and the creative mind at work.
		Her Hebrew publications included a book on the Israeli novelist L.A. Arieli and a study of the early 20th century novelist J.C. Brenner.
	www.hebrewcollege.edu /html/news/nr_gila_2-16-05.html (873 words)

	Jewish Language Research Website: Hebrew
		They strove to make Hebrew and Yiddish respectively the sole language in their speech communities, while the traditionalists claimed the maintenance of the traditional diglossia of Hebrew and Yiddish, which can still be found in some Hasidic enclaves in Israel.
		Until then the use of Hebrew had been restricted mainly to religious spheres, but it was expanded to non-religious areas such as secular literature, etc., laying the foundation for the functioning of Hebrew as a spoken language later.
		Structurally speaking, Modern Hebrew may be defined as a fusion language comprising the intracommunal classical components of Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, and Babylonian Aramaic, with Yiddish as its main susbtratum.
	www.jewish-languages.org /hebrew.html (1216 words)

	languagehat.com: HEBREW OR ISRAELI?
		The reason Israelis can be expected to understand the book of Isaiah — albeit still with difficulties — is surely because they study the Old Testament at school for eleven years, rather than because it is familiar to them from their daily conversation.
		Israeli educators and politicians, as well as laymen, often argue that Israelis ‘slaughter’ or ‘rape’ their language by ‘lazily’ speaking slovenly, ‘bad Hebrew’, full of ‘mistakes’ (e.g.
		Victorious Hebrew is, after all, partly European at heart.
	www.languagehat.com /archives/002025.php (4480 words)

	HEBREW
		Continues the inductive introduction to the biblical Hebrew language begun in HEBR 414.
		Examines modern Hebrew poems side by side with texts from the traditional Jewish liturgy, analyzing how contemporary writers have drawn on classical sources to reflect on matters of faith and the language of prayer.
		While building vocabulary and improving dictionary and composition skills, students examine the role of popular song in the construction of modern Hebrew culture and Israeli identity.
	www.washington.edu /students/crscat/hebrew.html (936 words)

	Hebrew World - Learn the Language and Jewish Prayer
		500 crown Jewels - the most important Hebrew and Aramaic idioms - translated, narrated, and explained in English on 2 audio CDs with over 130 minutes of recording, and a 40-page color booklet (with vowels) and with references to the biblical source of related idioms.
		This tutorial prepares the beginner for both modern Israeli and Biblical practices.
		Learn the Hebrew alphabet and download practical charts of both the print and cursive styles.
	www.hebrewworld.com (1000 words)

	Learn Hebrew with Israeli Hebrew for Speakers of English
		Israeli Hebrew for Speakers of English is a series of Hebrew language textbooks designed by a group of linguists and Hebrew instructors at the University of Illinois.
		The series, published by Duben Books, consists of three textbooks covering elementary, intermediate and advanced-intermediate Hebrew, as well as a booklet that introduces the Hebrew alphabet.
		Learning Hebrew with your computer is easy and fun.
	dubenbooks.freeyellow.com (357 words)

	Humbul full record view for -- The corpus of spoken Israeli Hebrew
		This is the Web site for the project Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew (CoSIH) which started in 2000 at Tel Aviv University.
		Its aim is to provide a representative corpus of Hebrew (5 million words) as spoken today by different groups in society taking into account such factors as: sex; age; profession; social and economic background; and education.
		This project was launched to fill a gap in the field of Corpus Linguistics and to have a resource as a base for research and general educational purposes.
	www.humbul.ac.uk /output/full2.php?id=14079 (225 words)

	Dr Ghil`ad Zuckermann
		Zuckermann demonstrates a mastery of European and Hebrew
		Israeli Hebrew is a spoken language, 'reinvented' over the course of the twentieth century.
		The Case of Israeli: Multisourced Neologization (MSN) as an Ideal Technique for Lexical Enrichment
	www.zuckermann.org /enrichment.html (563 words)

	Culture - Israeli Consulate, SF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Culture - Israeli Consulate, SF Calendar of Events
		Metropolis - An Israeli site providing the latest information about shows, concerts and cultural events in Israel (Hebrew)
		Ministry of Education and Culture Museums Department (Hebrew)
	www.israelemb.org /sanfran/Culture/cultural_links.htm (87 words)

	RadioHazak
		The two famous Israeli musicians each have a son ready to release their first album
		If you like Israeli music, but find yourself 5000 miles away from thenearest Kol Yisrael radio station, RadioHazak is for you.
		We'll help you learn what's new, what's hot, and what's classic in Israeli music.
	www.radiohazak.com /Hazak.html (207 words)

	Israeli Hebrew Audio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Audio exercises to accompany Israeli Hebrew Book I and Book II were first produced and sold by the University of Illinois Language Learning Laboratory, and in recent years have been made available to the public by the Indiana University Language and Computers Laboratories.
		MP3 files can be downloaded to a pocket MP3 player and they can be converted by software available on the Internet to audio CDs.
		The authors are willing to authorize additional websites with the same materials (in order not to overload the present sites).
	dubenbooks.freeyellow.com /israeli_hebrew_audio.htm (454 words)

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