This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. If Sapri Sale is like anyone you know, it’s probably Uncle Albert, the gravity-defying character in “Mary Poppins” who loves to laugh long and ...

The term “meh,” defined as “an expression of indifference or boredom,” entered the Collins English Dictionary in 2008. According to Know Your Meme, the term’s origins trace back to a 1992 “Melrose ...

The Academy of the Hebrew Language approved the addition of over 500 new words to the Hebrew dictionary. The list of new words and phrases, compiled by several academy committees, was brought up to a ...

Sheffield Phoenix Press have announced a new 834-page volume, enhancing the Dictionary of Classical Hebrew (DCH), the standard dictionary of ancient Hebrew edited by David J.A. Clines, Professor ...

The bespectacled man with two pens in his shirt pocket and a black skullcap atop grey hair points to his computer screen and explains an epic project spanning generations. Gabriel Birnbaum, 66, is a ...

FEBRUARY 10, 2018 19:22 Despina Liozidou Shermister Despina Liozidou Shermister is my hero. My Greek Israeli heroine, who at the age of fifty six gave birth to the first modern Greek-Hebrew, ...