Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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James L. Kugel, the Starr professor of classical and modern Jewish and Hebrew literature, credits his class' popularity to its timeless subject matter...
Elkies spent eight years of his youth in Israel, and hecame to New York City having read a Hebrew translation of Euclid but without any significant knowledge of English. He was accepted into the prestigious Stuyvesant High School on the strength of his almost-perfect score on the mathematical portion of their admissions test, although he flunked the English section. "I had already been doing advanced work for my age in both music and math when I got [to New York]," Elkies recalls...
...students moved into the seminary. In 1962 only two Jewish students graduated, and the school came close to shutting down. But it endured, changed its name to honor the Dutch schoolgirl-diarist murdered by the Nazis, and is now jammed to capacity with 200 students who get lessons in Hebrew, Jewish history and Bible study as well as regular subjects. They came to Anne Frank, says director Rozsa Berend, ``because they wanted to be Jewish...
Perhaps the oddest indication of Polish interest in things Jewish is a craze for kosher drinks. The hottest-selling alcoholic beverage is ``kosher vodka,'' with a label showing bearded rabbis in prayer shawls and Polish names in Hebrew-like lettering. There is also kosher beer and even kosher mineral water, not generally required of even the most orthodox of Jews, who are content to drink tap water...
Another professor, Hancock Professor of Hebrew Eliphalet Pertain served as acting president for two years before an official successor was chosen...