Sarah Benor loved hearing the mix of Hebrew and English at childhood summer camp. Now a prize-winning sociolinguist, she reflects on how Hebrew impacts her American Jewish identity.
It's not that American Jews can't learn Hebrew-they actively won't. Michael Weingrad argues that the psychological history of immigration is the reason why.
Novelist and literary scholar Dara Horn explores the role Hebrew can play in a living contemporary American Jewish culture in this 2016 Stroum Lecture.
Professor Ilan Stavans discusses the opposing sides of Hebrew as a divine language and a human language in this 2016 Stroum Lecture.
Religious identity was not part of Nick Barr’s Seattle upbringing, but a recent discovery about his family's past shifted his perspective.
Hebrew was the only way Anat Mooreville could communicate with her Romanian-born grandparents. A beautiful reflection on home as "a place beyond language."
"Our language and culture must be preserved, and with them our community."
