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 ...

The completion of the Hebrew Edition of Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary by the Dvir Publishers was celebrated at the home of Shmarya Levin today. The celebration was attended by a number of authors ...

AFP — 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, ...

Abraham Elmaleh, eminent lexicographer, has just completed the first complete Hebrew-French dictionary, carefully prepared and attractively printed in a portable format. This small dictionary is to be ...

Could the Hebrew language be the common thread that ties Israel and Indonesia — the world's largest Muslim-majority nation — together? One Islamic scholar thinks so. Muslim academic Sapri Sale, who ...

If there is one thing Irish people know about the revival of Hebrew, it is that its story has no relevance for language policies here. As one scholar put it: “the ...

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 ...