Taxi is a collection of 58 short stories by Khaled Al Khamissi, first published in December 2006. A book dedicated "to the life that lives in the words of poor people." Taxi is a journey of urban sociology in the Egyptian capital through the voices of taxi drivers. Through recounting the stories of different taxi drivers he encounters, the author offers some insight into contemporary Cairo and Egypt.

Mount Carmel of Graf von Mülinen is a translated, edited and annotated edition of the monumental Beiträge zur Kenntnis des Karmels , written by Graf Eberhardt von Műinen, a well-known Swiss researcher and diplomat. His book was first published in Leipzig by Baedeker Publishing in 1908 . The work constitutes a meticulous and professional exploration of Mount Carmel in the beginning of the twentieth-century, and an important stepping stone in the chronology of the field. This Interdisciplinary study of the mountain covers a range of fields such as Arabic dialectology, botany, zoology, general geography, geology, climate, anthropology, religion, archaeology and folklore . This book is dedicated to the 44 casualties of the devastating fire on Mount Carmel in December 2010 .

This dictionary is the outcome of a over 20 years fieldwork. It presents over 4000 entries and over 12000 subentries of the Hebrew component in Jewish languages, most of which were recorded from the mouth or informants. The research was focused on languages that were not studied at all or poorly studied: Judeo-Arabic of North Africa, Yemen and Iraq, Judeo-Georgian, Judeo-Persian and some Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects. The dictionary refers to thel literature relevant to this field and has systematic references to a dictionary on the Hebrew component in Judeo-Italian in the making by Prof. Maria Mayer-Modena. In some entries the dictionary functions merely as a bibliographical index. The examples are transliterated and translated into Hebrew. In parenthesis are given the intitals of the informants. Based on Shlomo Morag's records.

This book highlights a specific feature characterizing some of the short stories of IL Peretz: His transparent and extensive reliance on popular and Hasidic sources. This is the rational for a comparative study of source and its adaptation , adding a critical dimension to the understanding of these stories. This book concentrates on three short stories of IL Peretz belonging to the genre of Hasidic tales: 'If Not Higher', 'Between Two Mountains', and 'The Birds and the Parchments'

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This dictionary contains mainly idioms, which are combinations of words of an idiomatic nature and have an adopted, metaphorical meaning. Some are commonly used expressions, and are not necessarily idiomatic or metaphorical. These second kind of expressions which are termed "collocations" in linguistic parlance have been included only in cases where they do not appear in existing dictionaries of Yiddish. This dictionary offers four options for the user to find the required expressions: 1. By alphabetic order; 2. By alphabetized lists of the equivalent expressions in Hebrew, English and Russian; 3. By a list of the nouns and numerals that appear in the Yiddish expressions; 4. By a subject index. The alphabetized lists of equivalent expressions in Hebrew, English and Russian enable the dictionary to be used in two directions – Yiddish to Other Languages and Other Languages of Yiddish. The expressions in the dictionary are of three types: 1. Expressions which reflect the everyday life of the Jews of Eastern Europe (food, occupations, etc.): 2. Expressions associated with Jewish customs and religious life: 3. Loan translations (literal translations of expressions from other languages):

This volume presents thirty studies in the fields of Biblical Hebrew, the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Aramaic. These studies deal with matters of orthography and grammar (phonology, morphology, and syntax), lexicology and semantics. There are also discussions of general topics as well as discussions of five Hebrew and Aramaic inscriptions. The studies are presented in four sections: Biblical Hebrew (seven articles); the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls (ten articles); External Inscriptions (five articles); Aramaic (eight articles).

Student feedback video The updated version of this widely-used Modern Hebrew grammar textbook is now available in print and digital formats. The book includes easy-to-understand explanations of Hebrew grammar in English, with examples in Hebrew with English translations. The chapter on full spelling has been updated in accordance with the new guidelines of the Hebrew Language Academy. Highly recommended as an accompaniment to classroom, online or independent study and as a guide for teachers. The topics covered are those studied at the beginning and intermediate levels. Many advanced students and teachers have found Easing to be an important reference tool. The book features: - Explanations in non-technical English - Examples in Hebrew accompanied by English translations - Frequent use of vowel signs and transcriptions to aid in pronunciation - Color for highlighting the focus of discussion - Ample exercises with answers for self-check - Helpful charts and lists for easy reference - Easy access to topics through chapter Previews, English Subject Index and Hebrew Word Index

This volume of essays is dedicated to the memory of Moriah Libson, an outstanding woman and gifted teacher, a true lover of the Hebrew language, whose untimely death was a great loss to her family, students, and friends. The book’s seventeen original articles relate to Hebrew literature, to Jewish sources and to the different strata of the Hebrew language. Authored by the finest scholars and teachers of Jewish Studies and the Hebrew language, they address such varied topics as the different strata of Mishna Sanhedrin, the poetic style of the paytan Samuel the Third, Judeo-Arabic in Maimonidean works, reading translated Hebrew literature—theory and practice, reciprocal structures in Hebrew, and clarification of different words, terms, and formulas found in the sources, such as “Hoshava,” “adbereh,” “Nechemata,” “Levarech et Amo Yisrael Beahava,” and “Iqvot Meshicha.”