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Modern Hebrewby Lewis Glinert
Routledge 2004; US$ 40.95This new edition of Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar is an up-to-date and practical reference guide to the most important aspects of modern Hebrew as used by contemporary native speakers of the language. more...
Language in Jewish Societyby John Myhill
Multilingual Matters 2004; US$ 59.95John Myhill argues that the usage of language in Jewish societies can be understood as following from certain specific principles, particularly regarding the relationship between language and identity. He discusses the revival of Hebrew, Hebrew in the diaspora, the survival of Yiddish and more. more...
Adventures in Yiddishlandby Jeffrey Shandler
University of California Press 2005; US$ 26.95Adventures in Yiddishland examines the transformation of Yiddish in the six decades since the Holocaust, tracing its shift from the language of daily life for millions of Jews to what the author terms a postvernacular language of diverse and expanding symbolic value. With a thorough command of modern Yiddish culture as well as its centuries-old history, Jeffrey Shandler investigates the remarkable diversity of contemporary encounters with the language. His study traverses the broad spectrum of people who engage with Yiddish?from Hasidim to avant-garde performers, Jews as well as non-Jews, fluent speakers as well as those who know little or no Yiddish?in communities across the Americas, in Europe, Israel, and other outposts of "Yiddishland." more...
Colloquial Hebrewby Zippi Lyttleton; Tamar Wang
Taylor & Francis 2003; US$ 28.95Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study and class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Hebrew. No prior knowledge of the language is required. more...
Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions: Volume 2by Graham Davies; J. K. Aitken; D. R. de Lacey; P. A. Smith; J. Squirrel
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 126.00This second volume provides a comprehensive collection of the numerous texts in ancient Hebrew outside the Bible which have recently become known to scholars. The concordance provides an easy way to discover which Hebrew words and proper names occur in non-biblical sources and helps to widen the basis for Hebrew language study. more...
A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntaxby Bill T. Arnold; John H. Choi
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 19.00This textbook defines the fundamental syntactical features of the Hebrew Bible, illustrates these features with examples from the Bible, and provides English translations. more...
Clause Structure and Word Order in Hebrew and Arabicby Ur Shlonsky
Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 110.00Looking at the grammars of Hebrew and several varieties of Arabic, Shlonsky examines clausal architecture and verb movement and the role of agreement in natural language, using Chomsky's Government and Binding approach. more...
Language Change in Child and Adult Hebrewby Dorit Diskin Ravid
Oxford University Press 1995; US$ 55.00Tracing the language development in Hebrew-speakers from childhood to adulthood, this study focuses on inflectional morphology (the grammatical form of words). It explores strategies of language acquisition in speakers of different ages and socioeconomic backgrounds. more...
Reading Hebrewby Joseph Shimron
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2005; US$ 95.00As the worldwide demand for literacy continues, researchers from different countries with different language backgrounds have begun examining the connection between their language and writing system and literacy acquisition. This volume is part of this new, emerging field of research. more...
Comparative Semitic Philology in the Middle Agesby Aharon Maman; David Lyons
BRILL 2004; US$ 243.00This volume deals with medieval comparative Semitic philology (Hebrew/Aramaic/Arabic) as practised by Hebrew philologists in the Arabic speaking lands, from Iraq to Spain, discussing its development through the generations (10th-12th cent. CE), its technics and its theoretical basis. more...