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As the 250th anniversary celebrations reach a fever pitch this summer across the country, an innovative new course at ...

Eliezer Ben Yehuda (1858-1922), the “Father of the Modern Hebrew Language,” is best known for one of the truly great socio-linguistic events in world history: his virtually single-handed revival of ...

The word Jew is a household term, just as Christian and Muslim are. But where does the word Jew come from? The Hebrew version is יְהוּדִי for a male and יְהוּדִיָּה for a female. These are the Hebrew ...

One of the curiosities in “The Story of Hebrew” by Lewis Glinert (Princeton University Press) is that the author manages to write a history of the Hebrew language without using a single Hebrew letter ...

All cultures have a tendency to make their building blocks into part of a collective myth, oversimplifying them in textbooks and in the collective consciousness of their members. We Jews are hardly ...

In a recent piece in these pages, I addressed a popular myth: that Ashkenazi Jews are descended from Khazar pagans who converted to Judaism. Though this idea gets a lot of attention, it is fully based ...

The origin of the Japanese is traced to the Hebrew race by Dr. Jenichiro Oyabe, author of “Origin of Japan and the Japanese.” Dr. Oyabe asserted in an interview with a representative of the “Japan ...

Discovering the presence and history of Jewish communities in India and their cultural influence. A surprising look into a lesser-known part of Indian history. #jewish #indiatravel #history ...