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Ivriot - עבריות

Giving compliments in Hebrew

There are many ways to be polite. Hebrew manners are very different than English ones to say the least. In today's episode we will learn what is and isn't appropriate to say in different circumstances.
Ivriot - עבריות

Chapter One: frayer -- פראייר

In this chapter we will talk about the word that means "someone who was slightly conned". We'll talk about the origin of the word, how to use it and when.
Israel Studies Seminar

Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Seminar: Yair Wallach, (SOAS): Language of Revival or Conquest? Hebrew in the Streets of early 20th century Jerusalem

Yair Wallach discusses his book A City in Fragments: Urban Text in Modern Jerusalem (Stanford University Press, 2020).
Teaching the Codex

Teaching the Codex 22: 2019 Summary

Philip Booth (Oxford) gives closing remarks at the 2019 Teaching the Codex colloquium.
Teaching the Codex

Teaching the Codex 2019 15: Hebrew Palaeography 2

Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (Oxford) speaks at the 2019 Teaching the Codex colloquium about the aims, methods, and challenges of teaching Hebrew palaeography.
Teaching the Codex

Teaching the Codex 2019 14: Hebrew Palaeography 1

Stewart Brookes (Oxford) speaks at the 2019 Teaching the Codex colloquium on Hebrew palaeography in a digital age.
Israel Studies Seminar

Nancy Hawker - Palestinian multilingualism: A perfectly normal adaptation to colonialism, conflict and late capitalism

Nancy Hawker (The Aga Khan University) considers the developing place of Arabic in official nation-statist platforms in Israel
Israel Studies Seminar

Almog Behar - Between Hebrew and Arabic

The politics, culture, and reality of Hebrew and Arabic in Israel and beyond.
Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures

Conclusion to Crossing Borders

The conclusion to the Crossing Borders exhibition. The exhibition tells the story of how Jews, Christians and Muslims have contributed to the development of the book.
Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures

Sciences

Piet looks at how the works of famous ancient thinkers such as Aristotle, Hippocrates, Euclid or Ptolemy traveled from culture to culture and formed the basis of Muslim, Christian and Jewish science and philosophy alike.
Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures

User-produced Hebrew Prayer Books and Shared Iconography

Some Hebrew manuscripts were produced in Christian workshops, others were made by Jewish artists themselves for their own use. Piet looks at examples of these and explores the shared iconography between Christian and Jewish faiths, such as the unicorn.
Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures

Hebrew Prayer Books for Public Use

Piet looks at the three great Bodleian mahzorim (large and elaborately decorated prayer books for the festivals), which were illuminated by Christian painters in collaboration with and under the supervision of Jewish scribes.
Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures

Arabic Art Forms in Spanish Book Production

Piet explains Arabic design and illustration in Spanish books, looking in particular at the Kennicott Bible, produced in La Coruna, Spain, in 1476.
Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures

From Roll to Codex

Piet explains codices, the oldest manuscripts in book form, looking in particular at a fragment of the Hebrew text of the book of Ecclesiasticus (ch. 40) from the Cairo Genizah, and the four Gospels in Syriac.
Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures

Introduction to Crossing Borders

An introduction to the Crossing Borders exhibition. The exhibition tells the story of how Jews, Christians and Muslims have contributed to the development of the book.

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