Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Moritz Rosenfeld of New York will give a reading from his Yiddish poetry under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein in the Fogg Lecture Room on April 18. Yiddish is a German dialect of the middle Rhine district, with some Hebrew and Slavic words incorporated into...
...Semitic Department Professor Toy will give course 16 on the history of the Christian Hebrew Literature. In the Greek Department courses 11 and 5 hf. are new courses. Latin 9 hf. is also a new course...
Professor Toy gave the postponed lecture on Hebrew, in the course on the Semitic Languages and Literatures, in Sever 5, last evening...
...Semitic languages except Hebrew, said Professor Toy, pushed beyond their original limits. This tongue was not that of a commercial people. It is not adapted for scientific, or for philosophic writing. But for denunciatory writing, for beautiful poetry, and for fine prose narrative, the language has not been surpassed...
...short story was produced by Hebrew. Its literature continued to be added to up to a century ago; but now, as a means of communication and for literature, Hebrew has practically ceased to be used...