About Quote by Zubin Mehta

I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.

— Zubin Mehta

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

— Etgar Keret

Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.

— Heinrich Heine

Arab Israelis don't have the same voice as Jewish Israelis. If you look at the numbers, we are not equal. There are many reasons…

— Nuseir Yassin

“The influence of Arabic on the language of Palestine was mainly in vocabulary. Thus is seen to some extent in the text of Old…

— James John Courtenay

What happens when you speak colloquial Hebrew is you switch between registers all the time. So in a typical sentence, three words are biblical,…

— Etgar Keret

“Ancient Arabic may naturally be regarded as the chief source of the Hebrew language.”

— John Courtenay James

“The original language of the descendants of Abraham was not Aramaic, which was changed to Hebrew when the tribes of Israel entered Canaan.”

— James John Courtenay

Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language.

— George Mikes

“The Israelite tribes that settled in Canaan from the fourteenth to thirteenth centuries BCE, regardless of what their language might have been before they…

— 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

“In any Semitic study, Arabic is a most useful adjunct, inasmuch as it often indicates the true significance of words where the Hebrew, Syriac…

— James John Courtenay