Anything Quote by Noam Chomsky

Writing in modern Hebrew is a bit like playing chamber music inside a huge, empty cathedral. If you are not very careful with the…

— Amos Oz

I enjoyed translating half a Bible page, with my mom back in Australia, into Hebrew.

— Ashley Zukerman

“The later writings of the Old Testament were composed in a degenerate type of Hebrew, often made more difficult by the introduction of archaic…

— James John Courtenay

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

It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the language, I'm…

— Joshua Foer

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

— Henry David Thoreau

Almost every modern literary form existed in Hebrew two thousand years ago. And, yes, it existed even during the middle ages.

— Amos Oz

“There have been various attempts to reconstruct the vocalization and pronunciation of classical biblical Hebrew, which certainly differs considerably from that established by the…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“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

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

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

Hebrew as a contemporary language, especially for poetry, is no longer the language of the Bible; but neither is it not the language of…

— Cynthia Ozick