“My girlfriend’s grandmother spoke Ladino. Her family was originally from Spain and moved to Greece following the Spanish expulsion of 1492. What features of Hebrew does Ladino have? Is it like ...

The revival of Hebrew in the late 19th and early 20th centuries is often flattened into a tidy legend centered on Eliezer Ben ...

A total of 165,632 Jews of the total Jewish population of 175,006 in Palestine record Hebrew as their spoken tongue, according to census figures made known. In the previous census only 82,000 ...

This article originally appeared in Yiddish. As most Forward readers probably know, Yiddish and Hebrew are by far not the only Jewish languages. Jewish communities around the world once spoke or still ...