Philology

First condemning anti-Semitism, the editor of L’Express, using a Hebrew-derived word for the devil, then blasts French Jews thinking of moving to Israel.  

Aug. 25 2014 12:01AM

Israel’s 3,000 Circassians, the country’s smallest indigenous non-Jewish population, speak “one of the most difficult languages in the world.”

July 2 2014 12:01AM

More than half of the words in modern Hebrew have roots in the Bible, and philologists continually craft new terms on their basis. So how. . .

Daniel Estrin
June 23 2014 12:01AM