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Hebrew Printing in America, 1735–1926, A History and Annotated Bibliography (ISBN 1-59975-685-4) is a history and bibliography of Hebrew books printed in America between 1735 and 1926 by Ari Kinsberg. It records 1208 items, annotated with bibliographical information, historical context, scholarly references, approbations, and location of ...
The Jewish Publication Society (JPS), originally known as the Jewish Publication Society of America, is the oldest nonprofit, nondenominational publisher of Jewish works in English. Founded in Philadelphia in 1888, by Reform Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf among others, JPS is especially well known for its English translation of the Hebrew Bible , the ...
Hebrew Publishing Company was an American Jewish publishing house based in New York City. The company published a range of Hebrew prayerbooks and other religious works, as well as many Yiddish publications. [1] [2] The company was founded in the early 1900s on the Lower East Side of New York, and later was situated at the former Bank of United ...
Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features.. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name.
Post-1945 Jewish-American literature embrace approaches to writing centered in the postmodern. Didacticism, or telling stories for the purpose of teaching a moral lesson, is important to the writers Meyer Liben, Lionel Trilling , and Delmore Schwartz , who interweave Jewish philosophical discussion with self-identity as a basis for critiquing ...
This is a list of Jewish communities in the North America, including yeshivas, Hebrew schools, Jewish day schools and synagogues. A yeshiva ( Hebrew : ישיבה) is a center for the study of Torah and the Talmud in Orthodox Judaism .
Bukharian historically used the Hebrew alphabet (called Eastern Rashi in writing and square script in printing). From 1928 to 1940, the written Bukharian language in the USSR used the Latin alphabet. The first version of the Latin alphabet for the language was compiled in April 1928 [15] and had the following order:
Hebrew 1871-76 First Hebrew periodical in US The Hebrew Standard: English NYC late 1800s-early 20th century Jewish Post of New York: English New York 1974–Present 21,000 [1] New Jersey Jewish News: English New Jersey 1946–2020 24,000 [2] Weekly The Jewish Week: English New York 1875–Present 55,000 [3] Weekly UJA funded Yated Ne'eman ...