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A Poetics of Trauma
Brandeis University Press 2012; US$ 34.99Astute analysis of the work of a great Israeli poet through the lens of psychoanalysis, gender, nationalism, and trauma theory more...
Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 34.95Routledge Revivals presents a reissue of Noam Chomksy?s MA thesis, written in 1951, and first published in 1979. Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew is a landmark study in linguistics and generative phonology, which provides not only an analysis of morphophonemics but of the entire grammar of Modern Hebrew from syntax to phonology. Professor Chomsky?s... more...
The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai
University of California Press 2013; US$ 24.95Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) was Israel's most popular poet, as well as a literary figure of international reputation. In this collection, renowned translators Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell have selected Amichai's most beloved poems, including forty poems from his later work. A new foreword by C.K. Williams, written especially for this edition, addresses... more...
My Mother's Sabbath Days
Jason Aronson, Inc. 1997; US$ 45.99This tender and moving memoir by the great Yiddish writer Chaim Grade takes us to the very source of his widely praised novels and poems_the city of Vilna, the 'Jerusalem of Lithuania,' during the years before World War II. more...
Modern Hebrew
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 45.95This third 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. Presenting an accessible description of the language, this user-friendly text focuses on the real patterns of use today. A reference source... more...
Adventures in Yiddishland
University of California Press 2005; US$ 29.95Adventures 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,... more...
A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntax
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 20.00This textbook defines the fundamental syntactical features of the Hebrew Bible, illustrates these features with examples from the Bible, and provides English translations. more...
Language Change in Child and Adult Hebrew
Oxford University Press 1995; US$ 41.99Tracing 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 Hebrew
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 115.00Over the last two decades, the study of languages and writing systems and their relationship to literacy acquisition has begun to spread beyond studies based mostly on English language learners. As the worldwide demand for literacy continues to grow, researchers from different countries with different language backgrounds have begun examining the connection... more...
Gottes Sprache in der philologischen Werkstatt
BRILL 2004; US$ 136.00The present volume offers a fresh look at the crucial role which Christan Hebraism played in the development of the humanities and modern philology. Christian theology, Jewish tradition and linguistic interest had an irreversible impact on the understanding of holy texts and language. more...









