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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…
It is possible to see the promise of a beginning of Levantine literature—rooted in the realities of the Middle East and influenced by European culture—in Le livre de Goha le Simple [Goha the Fool] by…
A page from Libro de embezer las linguas Ingleza y Yudish (Book for Learning English and Yiddish), a guidebook for Ladino-speaking immigrants in Yiddish and English with Ladino transliteration and…
There are more than enough proofs that an important new Jewish community is being created in America. Jews come here to settle—permanently. Jewish life is becoming more and more established. America…
Despite all the great difficulties and obstacles, the school in Demievka soon attracted the attention of the Kiev Jewish public. The remote muddy little street in Demievka became a central location…
We can see that our sages, of blessed memory, likewise declared the Torah a weapon, as it has stood by us, enabling us to emerge triumphant in the wars for our religious and moral existence, in which…
The inception of literature is certainly not merely a matter of ideas and ideology. Not only are the contents connected to the forms and dependent on them, but the development of the forms has its own…
[ . . . ] It seems to me we are ready to rethink ourselves in America now; to preserve ourselves by a new culture-making.
Now you will say that this is a vast and stupid contradiction following all I…
A Grammar of the Hebrew Tongue was the first Hebrew-language manual printed in North America. Its author Judah Monis, knowing that all undergraduates at Harvard University were required to learn…
A book titled in Ladino Obligasyon de los korazones [Duty of the Hearts] because it is translated from a text written by the pious gaon, our master Baḥya the judge, of blessed…