Eliezer Ben-Yehuda was the father of modern Hebrew. He was also the father of Ittamar Ben-Avi, who had his own ideas. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the late inventor of modern Hebrew, was feted recently in his ...

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The rise of a whole new profession of calligraphy artists, often with little or no connection with tradition, has meant a new approach to the aleph-bet. A Hebrew scribe – sofer stam – has a special ...

Anton Fjortoft wrote that the modern Hebrew alphabet was virtually invented by a Jewish professor around 1948 (26 July, p 25). I don’t know which professor he is referring to, but the Hebrew alphabet ...

The oldest recorded alphabet may be Hebrew. According to a controversial new study by archaeologist and ancient inscription specialist Douglas Petrovich, Israelites in Egypt took 22 ancient Egyptian ...

A linguistic revolution is underway in the quest for more gender-inclusive language for Hebrew, whose modern form adopted grammatical norms from 3,000 years ago. Not everybody is on board. By Isabel ...