Click Here to Read: The Devil That Never Dies, Transcript of an Interview with Daniel Jonah Goldhagen on Richard Heffner’s The Open Mind TV show on Richard Heffner’s website.
Photo of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen Courtesey of JTN Productions.
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Click Here to Read: Want to shift your end-of-winter blues? Studies show that KNITTING can cure depression – and even Ryan Gosling’s a fan! By Aannabel Fenwick Elliott on the Mail Online website on March 25, 2014.
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A History of Languages Spoken by Jews by Merle Molofsky
Colleagues,
Merle and I were at a gathering this weekend where a band was performing Yiddish songs and we started dancing and got into a discussion about Yiddish culture and language. With her permission, I wanted to share her follow-up note below. – Molly
Here’s a quick review of the history of languages spoken by Jews:
Hebrew: Hebrew is a Semitic language, the same language family as Aramaic and Arabic. There is evidence of Hebrew as a written language about 10,000 BCE. The ancient Israelites — the ancient Jews — spoke Hebrew. The entire Five Books of Moses — the Torah, the Jewish Bible — are written in Hebrew. The English word “Hebrew” comes from the Hebrew word “Ivrit”, meaning the Hebrews who spoke Hebrew, and the language itself. Continue reading A History of Languages Spoken by Jews by Merle Molofsky
Trying to Close a Knowledge Gap, Word by Word
Click Here to Read: Trying to Close a Knowledge Gap, Word by Word By Motoko Rich March 25, 2014.
Credit Katherine Taylor for The New York Times. A Gadget to Close the Language Gap. An intervention program in Providence, R.I., uses a digital word counter to track language use in families, in an effort to close the “word gap” between children from low-income and affluent families.
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‘Story of the Jews’ is also story of writer Simon Schama
Click Here to Read: Review: ‘Story of the Jews’ is also story of writer Simon Schama Television Review: Simon Schama’s British documentary covers 3,000 years of the Chosen People in 5 hours, and as host he also shares a bit about himself by Robert Lloyd in The Los Angeles Times on March 25, 2014.
Click Here to Read: How Simon Schama wants us to think about Jewish history, and a Jewish future BY Alyssa Rosenberg in The Washington Post on March 25, 2014.
Click Here to Read: Simon Schama Moderates a Moderate History of Moderate Jews ‘The Story of the Jews’ is the most important TV documentary about Jewish history since Abba Eban’s famous ‘Heritage’ series By Adam Kirsch on Tablet website on March 20, 2014.