In an increasingly interconnected world, the ability to communicate across language barriers is more crucial than ever. For ...

Indonesian academic Sapri Sale defied geopolitical tensions to write the first Hebrew-Bahasa Indonesia dictionary in 2015. Against the odds, he’s now breaking cultural taboos by teaching Hebrew at ...

and compiled a comprehensive dictionary. Today, over 10 million people worldwide speak modern Hebrew. Old notes written by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the father of modern Hebrew. (credit: Menahem Kahana ...

The Hebrew word for concubine, Piylegesh, isn’t even of Hebrew origin. It’s “a non-Semitic loanword borrowed to refer to a phenomenon not indigenous to Israel,” according to Baker’s Dictionary of ...

He wrote the first Modern Hebrew dictionary and became known as the "reviver" of the Hebrew language. However, while he worked tirelessly to raise awareness and fought its opponents, what finally ...