For more than fifteen centuries after it ceased to be a spoken tongue, Jews preserved Hebrew in their writings, prayers, and even personal correspondence. They then—in a feat without parallel—revived the language as one of everyday life, not to mention of science, politics, modern literature, and many other things. Drawing on his book The Story of Hebrew, Lewis Glinert explains how this happened. (Video, 72 minutes. Audio for streaming and download available at the link below.)
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