Articles in Ghil’ad Zuckermann
Reclaiming Native Language Title Rights
By Ghil’ad Zuckermann
‘I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and …
Let My People Know!
The Hebrew Bible should be taught like a foreign language, argues Assoc. Prof. Ghil‘ad Zuckermann, endorsing Avraham Ahuvia’s recently-launched translation of the Old Testament into what Zuckermann calls high-register “Israeli”.
In 1996 President Ezer Weizman visited …
You say Hebrew; I say Israeli!
The language spoken in today’s Israel is a multifaceted and fascinating fin-de-siècle hybrid, based not only on ‘sleeping beauty’ (or alternatively, ‘walking dead’) Hebrew but also on the revivalists’ mother tongues such as Yiddish, argues …
The Hebrew Revival: Lessons for Indigenous Australia
By Ghil’ad Zuckermann
What lessons could one draw from the Hebrew revival in the Promised Land to current revival attempts of no-longer spoken Aboriginal languages in the Lucky Country? Heaps! While the Hebrew revivalists, who wished …
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