For nearly 2,000 years, Hebrew was a dead language. But in the 19th and 20th centuries, this liturgical language made a comeback as a modern tongue. Its revival is unprecedented, said Nancy Berg, a ...
Denise Lockett, an African American and Catholic grandmother, sat in the lobby of a District charter school waiting to deliver lunch to her 9-year-old grandson. “I’m Kobe’s savta,” she said with a ...
Eliezer Ben Yehuda (1858-1922), the “Father of the Modern Hebrew Language,” is almost single-handedly responsible for one of the greatest socio-linguistic events in world history: the revival of ...