Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iranians lived in L.A. Today's colony is close to 200,000, the great majority political refugees who have fled their country's revolutionary turmoil. Many more are Jews, concentrated in southern Beverly Hills: there, over bins of dates in greengrocers, signs are printed in English, Farsi and Hebrew. In Beverly Hills elementary schools, one in six children is Iranian. Some American parents worry that their children's education is suffering as teachers slow their lessons to accommodate the Farsi speakers. But one Iranian mother retorts, "When we bought their house and raised the price from $1 million...
...Bloomfield, who says teaching "helps to keep one alive and vigorous," will continue teaching, starting with a Hebrew course at the University of Israel this fall. Reminiscing on his days as a professor here, he remarks, "I occasionally got mad at people...but it's been a great 22 years here...
...publication of manuscripts changed the way the authors thought about their compositions. Historian Mordechai Feingold is studying early modern intellectual history, including the work of Britain's John Rainolds, who in the early 17th century helped translate the King James version of the Bible from Greek and Hebrew...
...communicating in "computer language" is not difficult enough, computers at the Classics Department can not "talk back" in Greek, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, and even Coptic...
...text book of Biblical Hebrew is the most lucid one that exists." Said Andras Hamon, a professor of Arabic Princeton University and a former student of Lambdin...