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	Sephardi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In translating the great works of Arabic, Hebrew, and Greek into Latin, Iberian Jews were instrumental in bringing the fields of science and philosophy, which formed much of the basis of Renaissance learning, into the rest of Europe.
		Sephardic knowledge of the language and culture of the enemy, their skills as diplomats and professionals, as well as their desire for relief from intolerable conditions - the very same reasons that they had proved useful to the Arabs in the early stages of the Moslem invasion - rendered their services of great value.
		A sizeable Sephardic community had settled in Morocco and other Northern African countries, which were colonized by France in the 19th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sephardi (4341 words)

	Sephardic Hebrew Encyclopedia Article, History, Biography at Karr.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Sephardi Hebrew language is an offshoot of Biblical Hebrew favored for liturgical use by Sephardi Jewish practice.
		When Eliezer ben Yehuda drafted his Standard Hebrew language, he based it on Sephardi Hebrew, believing it to be most beautiful of the Hebrew dialects.
		However, the phonology of Modern Hebrew is further constrained to that of Ashkenazi Hebrew, including the elimination of pharyngeal articulation and the conversion of /r/ from an alveolar flap to a voiced uvular fricative.
	www.karr.net /encyclopedia/Sephardic_Hebrew (230 words)

	Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews
		Sephardic Jews are the Jews of Spain, Portugal, North Africa and the Middle East.
		Sephardic Jews have a different pronunciation of a few Hebrew vowels and one Hebrew consonant, though most Ashkenazim are adopting Sephardic pronunciation now because it is the pronunciation used in Israel.
		Sephardic Jews have their own international language: Ladino, which was based on Spanish and Hebrew in the same way that Yiddish was based on German and Hebrew.
	www.betmishpachah.org /hebrewdate/ashkseph.html (496 words)

	Sephardic Hebrew Day School in Skokie, Illinois/IL - School Tree
		Sephardic Hebrew Day School is classified as an "Elementary School".
		Sephardic Hebrew Day School is a "Regular Elementary or Secondary School".
		Sephardic Hebrew Day School is a Coed School.
	illinois.schooltree.org /private/Sephardic-Hebrew-Day-022973.html (114 words)

	Overview of the Hebrew Language to Help You Learn Hebrew
		Ashkenasic Hebrew was spoken by the Jews in Central Europe, while Sephardic Hebrew was spoken by those of the Mediterranean basin.
		Hebrew was recognized as an official language of Jewish Palestine in 1922 and had established itself as a modern language by the time Israel was officially established in 1948.
		Modern Hebrew, adapted to meet modern needs, is somewhat different from the ancient language of the Bible from which it is descended.
	www.transparent.com /languagepages/hebrew/overview.htm (695 words)

	Sephardic Hebrew Definition / Sephardic Hebrew Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Speakers are currently almost exclusively Sephardic Jews, but historically there have additionally been Ashkenazi speakers — e.g., in Thessaloniki and Istanbul.
		Sephardic Hebrew is the language of the Temple and has been preserved for us by the Yemenite and Spanish Jews.
		Sephardic Hebrew is the official language, while Ashkanez is the second largest dialect.
	www.elresearch.com /Sephardic_Hebrew (260 words)

	TravelBlog \| Languages \| Hebrew Information
		The Hebrew vocabulary word mi (pronounced like the English word "me") means who; the word hu (pronounced "who") means he; and the word hi (pronounced "he") means she.
		Hebrew letters are also used for numbers, just as in the Roman numeral system.
		An all-purpose greeting in Hebrew is shalom, used for both hello and good-bye.
	www.travelblog.org /World/hebrew-language.html (680 words)

	Gleanings volume 6 number 2 (Spring 2004), The Melton Research Center for Jewish Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hebrew must be taught as a consonantal alphabet consisting of twenty-two letters, all of them consonants.
		Hebrew lacks letters that are true vowel letters as is the case in English.
		Our day schools have created vibrant classrooms where Hebrew is the official language, but that pales in comparison to Israel as a classroom without walls where Hebrew is everyone's spoken language and a random encounter with a shopkeeper or passerby can be a whole new lesson in modern Hebrew usage.
	www.jtsa.edu /davidson/melton/gleanings/v6n2.shtml (9851 words)

	Transparent Language - Hebrew Language Overview
		More than 4.6 million people worldwide speak Hebrew, primarily in Israel, where, along with Arabic, it is one of the two official languages.
		Since Israel is a nation of immigrants, Hebrew is a second language for many of its speakers.
		From the ninth century to the nineteenth century, Hebrew was not spoken extensively, being used mostly in Jewish religious observance and by scholars studying the Old Testament.
	www.learn-hebrew-language-software.com /overview.htm (731 words)

	Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel ~ Los Angeles
		As a precursor to the history of the Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel in Los Angeles, it should be noted that Sephardic Jews were in the city as early as 1853 albeit for a short time.
		The first Sephardic Jew to arrive in 20th century Los Angeles was Mordecai Zeitoun, a veteran of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, a native of Algeria.
		In 1935 the name was changed to the Sephardic Hebrew Center and still later to Sephardic Beth Shalom.
	www.sephardictemple.org /history.shtml (504 words)

	@LETTRINE = Sephardic genealogical research
		Sephardic genealogical research begins with the search for your ancestor's country of origin.
		Mizrahi is a common Sephardic name found from Morocco to Greece, to Turkey, to Syria, Iran and every place on the road to and from the old Silk Caravan Route.
		In Spain, contact the Sephardic Museum in Toledo or the ?Ministryof Culture, Ministerio de Cultura, Museo Sefardi, Toledo, Sinagoga del Transito, Ministerio de Cultura, No. I.P.O. The Association of Friends of the Sephardic Museum in Spain is restoring the buildings and researching genealogy.
	www.sefarad.org /publication/lm/010/cardoza.html (1543 words)

	Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel ~ Los Angeles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1979 a two day festival, Sephardic ‘79 was held in the sanctuary site as a fund raiser for the new temple sanctuary.
		The impressive ceremony was the culmination of two decades of effort to bring about the complete relocation of Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel from its Santa Barbara Avenue location dedicated some 50 years ago, to the new Wilshire Boulevard location, at Warner Avenue.
		In 1993 Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel and Sephardic Beth Shalom, the former Sephardic Hebrew Center merged and after 80 years the congregation of Avat Shalom of 1912 was once more one spiritual family.
	sephardictemple.org /history6.shtml (790 words)

	Teach Yourself to Read Hebrew (Ethelyn Simon, et al)
		In Sephardic (North African) hebrew, you pronounce the ayin back in the throat like Arabic, you pronounce the Het like Arabic, and you roll the Resh.
		Sephardic (North African) Hebrew is very guttural, sounding like arabic, as it should.
		I have seen Hebrew language books that don't even teach you how to write the Hebrew by hand, which is much different than the formal typed Hebrew.
	johnkeyes.com /a/0939144115-teach-yourself-to-read-hebrew.html (781 words)

	FORWARD : Arts & Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sephardic Hebrew, Part II After writing last week about the ascendancy of the Sephardic accent in Palestinian Hebrew in the 19th century, I would like to share with you an interesting passage that I recently came across about the Zionist movement's early 20th-century propagation of this accent in Europe as well.
		The decree that we speak only Hebrew [Menakhem-Mendl's Russian is not good enough for him to use it freely] might be something we could live with if only we were allowed to speak it as it is spoken in our parts.
		This was a claim commonly made for Sephardic Hebrew by its proponents, and it raises the double question of, first, whether there is such a thing as more and less phonetically pleasing languages and, second, whether, even if the answer to the first question is yes, Sephardic Hebrew is more pleasing.
	www.forward.com /issues/2000/00.10.13/arts5.html (725 words)

	Judaism 101: Hebrew Alphabet
		Note that Hebrew is written from right to left, rather than left to right as in English, so Alef is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet and Tav is the last.
		However, as Hebrew literacy declined, particularly after the Romans expelled the Jews from Israel, the rabbis recognized the need for aids to pronunciation, so they developed a system of dots and dashes called nikkud (points).
		Several Hebrew fonts for PC (Windows) are available for free from http://www.snunit.k12.il/hebrew.html.
	www.jewfaq.org /alephbet.htm (1766 words)

	Sephardic Genealogy: Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestors and Their World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The origins of Sephardic surnames and clues derived from their origins and meanings are clearly explained and an extensive bibliography is provided for additional study.
		Malka is author of several articles on Sephardic genealogy in Etsi, the journal of the Sephardi Genealogical and Historical Society, and is author of several chapters in the forthcoming Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy.
		In Sephardic Genealogy: Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestry and Their World, he guides the reader through the history of the Sephardim, describes the origins and meanings of common Sephardic family names, and lists genealogical resources available in the many countries that Sephardic Jews inhabited.
	www.avotaynu.com /books/sephardic.htm (1035 words)

	The Journal of the American Oriental Society : SEPHARDIC SCANSION AND PHONOLOGICAL THEORY.(Hebrew poetry in medieval ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		However, in the case of the metrical pattern of Sephardic Hebrew poetry we have a very strong candidate.
		Manuals of Hebrew poetics have often mentioned that the conjunction u- 'and' scans on some occasions as long and on others as short.
		Given the facts that Malone had discovered, the theory of the phonological aspects of poetry which Manaster Ramer has been developing led us to hypothesize that the actual pronunciation of Hebrew by the medieval Sephardic poets was different in a specific detail from what has been commonly assumed.
	static.highbeam.com /t/thejournaloftheamericanorientalsociety/april011999/sephardicscansionandphonologicaltheoryhebrewpoetry/index.html (270 words)

	The Jewish Eye - Modern Hebrew
		Beginning with a brief introduction to the Hebrew Alphabet and the basics of reading Hebrew, this will also teach you the fundamentals of grammar, provide you with a vocabulary of over 900 words, and introduce you to elements of Israel culture and geography.
		Throughout this course, all words are spoken in Sephardic Hebrew, which is the pronunciation used in Israel.
		This course will also help you learn to understand other people when they speak Hebrew - this is especially important for those studying on their own as they may not have the opportunity, otherwise, to hear native speakers.
	www.largeprintreviews.com /modhebrew.html (703 words)

	sephardic - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Sephardic Jews of Bordeaux: Assimilation and...Nahum N. Glatzer Jacob R. Marcus The Sephardic Jews of Bordeaux: Assimilation...Publication Data Malino, Frances The Sephardic Jews of Bordeaux.
		Sephardic cuisine is therefore eclectic and regional...Iraq, Iran, and the Mediterranean.
		The Sephardic Congregation is a community of about 250 Sephardic families who have come, either directly...Congregation Ezra in the early 1970s.
	www.questia.com /search/sephardic (1675 words)

	MyJewishLearning.com - Culture: Sephardic and Ashkenazic Hebrew
		There are two different Hebrew pronunciation systems in use today: one common to Jews of Europe and one common to Jews from the Mediterranean.
		Until the middle of the 20th century, most American synagogues used the Ashkenazic Hebrew pronunciation, as the majority of American Jews were of Ashkenazic descent.
		After the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, however, there was a gradual shift in American congregations toward using Sephardic Hebrew, since that is the standard pronunciation used in Israel.
	myjewishlearning.com /culture/Languages/Languages_Hebrew_TO/HebrewLetters/SephardicHebrew.htm (201 words)

	The Jewish Eye - Encounters in Modern Hebrew, by Edna Amir Coffin
		Encounters in Modern Hebrew is a well-paced academically rigorous college-level language course for English-speaking students that was written by Edna Amir Coffin, professor of Modern Hebrew Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, where this series has been used extensively.
		Encounters in Modern Hebrew is a phenomenal course that takes students through their second year of Hebrew study and in some cases, into their third year of study.
		After complete the three levels of Encounters in Modern Hebrew, most students will have a firm grasp of Hebrew grammar and structure, will be able (within the scope of their vocabulary) to fluently read and write Modern Hebrew, carry on a conversation in Hebrew, and they will have a command of a large Hebrew vocabulary.
	www.largeprintreviews.com /eacoffin.html (760 words)

	Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel
		From the 1860s to the early 1900s, Sephardic Jews came to California from eastern cities such as NewYork, Philadelphia, Charleston, and New Orleans, and also from the West Indies, but most stayed for only a few years before returning to their communities.
		The Sephardic Community of Los Angeles was born in 1920, and in 1926 a third group emerged, the Sephardic Brotherhood, or HaimVahessed.
		In 1959 the Sephardic Brotherhood and the Sephardic Community of Los Angeles merged and became the Sephardic Jewish Community and Brotherhood, known today as Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel.
	www.home.earthlink.net /~benven/STTI.htm (2015 words)

	Guide to the Records of the Union of Sephardic Congregationsn.d., 1929-1988 ; (Bulk 1936-1981)Processed by Dianne ...
		The Union of Sephardic Congregations was established in 1929 by leaders of Sephardic communities in America to promote the religious interests of Sephardic Jews.
		During the 1930s and 1940s it assisted in the rescue of Sephardic scholars and religious leaders from Europe, was involved with the Sephardic refugees interred at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York, and collected financial support for the Marranos in Portugal.
		The Union’s main activity was the publication and distribution of Sephardic Hebrew prayer books with English translations, and this is well documented throughout the collection.
	www.cjh.org /academic/findingaids/asf/ncprc/USCb.html (2176 words)

	Teach Yourself to Read Hebrew - Waukaway Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		My son is in Hebrew school and I needed to learn Hebrew fast to help him with his homework.
		I had had Hebrew when I was a kid and had forgotten all of it.
		The First Hebrew Primer: The Adult Beginner's Path to Biblical Hebrew, Third...
	www.waukawaysprings.com /store/asinsearch_0939144115 (336 words)

	Hebrew Learning & Hebrew Studies Software - BMSoftware, Hebrew Software
		Sephardic Hebrew pronuniciation of the whole Hebrew Scriptures read aloud on audio CD/MP3.
		Parsons Hebrew Tutor takes you from the alphabet to reading and translating the book of Ruth via 14 units covering all major aspects of grammar and letters.
		Great for conversational Hebrew; You'll follow the linguistic adventures of Daniel as he tours and studies in modern Israel.
	www.bmsoftware.com /hebrew/index.htm (664 words)

	ttgapers.com store - Teach Yourself to Read Hebrew - Ethelyn Simon, Joseph Anderson - Product Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Seminarians who may use this for an intro to Hebrew should be aware that their professors will demand a more rigorous phonetic key.
		The Mizrakhi pronunciation,or accent, is the one, which is and was in use by Jews who came from North Africa and Middle Eastern countries.
		The only minus I can say is the book does not teach words, just how to read and speak, but a Hebrew dictionary fixed that, so I would sugest getting one of those as well.
	www.ttgapers.com /ttStore-index2-asin-0939144115.html (451 words)

	Book and Score Reviews
		He also provides a useful transliteration chart of the Hebrew alphabet, and an interesting table he calls the "frequency chart," or a summation of the frequency of the occurrence of each of te'amim in the 21 books of the Bible, according to a popular concordance.
		Alongside the corresponding Hebrew text examples are a system of blocks which represent the syllables of the words.
		The Sephardic Songbook is an academic work, based on original fieldwork taken between 1976 and 1996 in Bat-Yam, Sarajevo, Thessaloniki, and Istanbul among other places.
	www.jmwc.org /jmwc_bookandscore_reviews.html (4037 words)

	Hypermail Torah-Forum Archive: Re: Hebrew pronounciation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hebrew does not distinguish between the letter tav with a dagesh
		We all agree that Israeli (Sabra type) Hebrew is not real Sephardic Hebrew.
		Israeli and American hybrid Hebrews are also valid.
	www.torah.org /linkedlists/torah-forum/vol3/0915.html (388 words)

	Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel ~ Los Angeles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The time was late 1962, and two young, respected leaders of the Sephardic Hebrew Center, President Edward Mizrahi and Senior Vice President Ted Hasson, approached me with a “you can’t say no” proposition.
		The Sephardic Star and I, with the enduring help of Pearle and Ted Hasson, survived until the Sephardic Hebrew Center, in 1993, merged to become a part of our Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel.
		Meanwhile, in December 1987, Nace Cohen was elected President of LASHA and shortly thereafter, he asked for my help in producing an expanded version of Lashon.
	sephardictemple.org /elshofar_from_editor.shtml (680 words)

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