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Is the Holocaust definable? Is it desirable to define it? After all, definitions are abstractions from reality and are useful only insofar as they help us to better understand the world around us. Any…
Our periodical [Mir’ât] was established to exist in a space of freedom as far away as possible from the recorded language of formality. Deficiencies in style and form will…
The library should be set up in the center of the district it serves, preferably on a quiet street where there is less noise and dust. Dry premises must…
Hebrew:Woe be to me, in my old age,That it should have to come to this:That I stand in judgment hereWith a shameless servant girlAnd her vulgar band of friends.No one knows me anymore!Yiddish:Oh…
People are forever quoting Talleyrand’s remark that language is only there in order to hide the thoughts of the diplomat (or for that matter of any other shrewd and dubious person). But in fact the…
Successive, often polemic interpretations, citations in a context of sacred doctrine or of political-historical opportunity, construe, around the archaic, cardinal words in the Hebrew canon, a…
The new hybrid rightist-Jewish narrative spread into mainstream Israeli society especially strongly after the Six Day War (1967), when the right began to make deep inroads in both political and public…
The goal of the natural method of language acquisition is not simply to teach people how to speak in as little time possible; its goal is to inculcate the language to the learner in an easy and…
[ . . . ] Similarly, the Russian Jews use the traditional rhyming couplet in those verses that chronicle a historical event or inculcate an ethical truth. The real folksongs, however, are set to music…
The distinction between religious and secular music is not universally admitted. There is a considerable group of people, some of them very learned in the art and science of sound, who claim that…