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Modern Hebrew by Norman Berdichevsky
28 Jul
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Modern Hebrew: The Epic Transformation of a Language

Posted by author-avatar Rachel Gross
August 4, 2014
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While teaching modern Hebrew in England and the United States, Norman Berdichevsky got a shock. Many of his students, he found, “were unable to utter...
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