Common Quote by Amos Oz

The revival of Hebrew, as a spoken language, is a fascinating story, which I'm afraid I cannot squeeze into a few sentences. But, let…

— Amos Oz

I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story.

— Etgar Keret

I was reading the Bible in Hebrew from a very young age, so that'll shape ideas about how words can move the world.

— Naomi Alderman

“Hebrew ... linguistic development was far from uniform. Even though they share a number of common tendencies, a variety of Hebrew traditions is seen…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

I think there are one or two things similar in Elizabethan English and contemporary Hebrew. This is not to say that every one of…

— Amos Oz

“Various attempts have been made, with differing degrees of success, to reconstruct pre-exilic Hebrew, including its morphology.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.

— Etgar Keret

Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by Greek, by…

— Amos Oz

“Biblical Hebrew is not a language in the full sense of the word but merely a 'fragment of language'.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.

— Cynthia Ozick

Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages.

— Amos Oz

There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa.

— Amos Oz