Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sunday, Dr. N. Glatzer, Professor of Jewish History and Chairman of the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, will lead a discussion in Hebrew at Hillel House...
Recalled to Rome in 1921, Father Agagianian became vice rector (later rector) of the Pontifical Armenian College. He added to his store of languages-he is now fluent in eleven, including English, Russian, French, German. Italian, Latin, classical Greek and Hebrew, and understands, but does not speak Arabic...
...immigrant boys for 30 months' compulsory duty, and girls for 24. Jewish youngsters from Yemen and Iran have learned from top sergeants not only how to launch a rocket but how to use a toilet, sleep in a bed and eat from a table. The army teaches them Hebrew, the indispensable unifying language. From the army's machine shops. Moroccan, Tunisian, Hungarian, Polish, Bulgarian and Iraqi conscripts emerge as the sort of technicians in greatest demand in Israel's cities...
...Scientists. "Zionism," says a tutor at Jerusalem's handsome new Hebrew University, "is no longer a dynamic concept because it has done what it set out to do." Young Israelis in general seem to be moving from their fathers' ideals toward a more matter-of-fact Israeli patriotism, with the solid goal of making a place for their country among the other Semitic states of the Middle East. Many Sabras look for leadership to former Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan. 43, who recently left his army command to study history at the Hebrew University and is regarded...
This book was literally dug up. It is a translation of records that were scribbled in Yiddish and Hebrew. They were sealed (in a milk can) and buried at a secret point in the ghetto. Not until 1946 did searchers find them in bombed Warsaw's featureless rubble. The man who originally compiled, wrote and preserved the records was named Emmanuel Ringelblum, a teacher of history; he recalls Noach Levinson, hero of John Mersey's bestselling novel, The Wall, who was supposed to have preserved archives of the Warsaw ghetto. In 1939 Ringelblum was safe in Switzerland...