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 ...

The program in Jewish studies at Smith College explores the history, literature, arts, politics, philosophy, culture, religion and languages of the Jewish people from its origins in ancient Israel ...

ABSTRACT Although Hebrew literary criticism has begun redressing the exclusion of women and minority writers from the Hebrew canon, the literary geography of modern Hebrew remains largely unquestioned ...

Retiring from the classroom after 50 years in academia, every journalist’s favorite Jewish historian is enjoying a victory lap. Journalists I know joke that the only Jewish historian they ever need to ...

Two courses in Old Testament literature and Hebrew history will be given in the School of Religion at the University of Kansas, with the full college credit. The courses will be under the direction of ...

This article forms a broad overview of the history of Judaism, from its beginnings until the present day. The history of Judaism is inseparable from the history of Jews themselves. The early part of ...

In Proud Jewish Boy, documentarian Isri Halpern sets out to find the truth about the 17-year-old Jewish refugee who ...

One of four fast days commemorating the siege of Jerusalem and the destruction of the First Temple, mentioned by the prophet ...

Hanukkah, also known as the festival of lights, is an eight-day Jewish festival commemorating the victory of the Maccabees, a ...

Hebrew Israelite groups have been making headlines thanks to Kanye West, Kyrie Irving and their antisemitism controversies. News outlets and advocacy groups like the Anti-Defamation League have ...