Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people of each aliyah may speak their own language for the first two years, after that are expected to switch to Hebrew.* A dead language, a language of scholarship and liturgy for centuries, Hebrew has been revived and made the official language of Israel. In earlier days, some of the old folks were shocked to hear Hebrew used in everyday speech. When a mother scolded, "Little Ittomar, blow your nose," in the tongue of the prophets, oldsters winced...
...scholar-soldier (he spoke fluent Arabic and Hebrew) went on to military glory in World War II-in Ethiopia, where his raiders disrupted the Italian army, and in Burma, where his "Chindits" raided deep into Japanese-held territory. But Wingate and his beautiful young wife Lorna always dreamed of returning to Palestine...
...July 4th as a national holiday and of Class Day as the time for a last fling sobered up Commencement Day considerably. Music, dancing, and the booths on the Common disappeared, and at the same time the actual exercises became less stiff. The one Latin, two Greek, and two Hebrew disputations gradually gave way to orations in English, the first of which was given in 1763 by Jedediah Huntington, a future Revolutionary War general...
...Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok announced last week that a citizen of Israel would be known by the Hebrew name Israeli. The Anglicized "Israelite" was rejected as applying to other times, other places (e.g., Israel's present territory has significant differences from that of biblical Israel...
...back as February, Palestine's famed Hebrew-speaking Habimah players had announced a six-week visit to Broadway. The sets and costumes were shipped well ahead; but when the company set out six days before the opening, they found Lydda airport in Arab hands and had to be secretly air-ferried to Athens. From there, in dribs & drabs, and by divergent routes, they reached New York...