In the current book two of the most prolific authors in the area of Medieval Judeo-Arabic and poetic Hebrew Medieval texts go back to its basic theses on the relations between Hebrew literature and its parallel Arabic and Judeo-Arabic texts. By re-establishing an up-to-date picture they are attacking the field of encounters from new and different angles.

The starting point for any study of the Bible is the text of the Masora, as designed by the Masoretes. The ancient manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible contain thousands of Masora comments of two types: Masora Magna and Masora Prava. This book presents the way in which the Masoretic comments preserve the Masoretic Text of the Bible throughout generations and all over the world, providing comprehensive information in a short and efficient manner. The book describes the important manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible, and the methods of the Masora in determining the biblical spelling and designing the forms of the parshiot and the biblical Songs. The effectiveness of Masoretic mechanisms and their degree of success in preserving the text is examined. A special explanation is offered for the phenomenon of qere and ketiv . The book discusses the place of the Masoretic text in the history of the Bible, the differences between the Babylonian Masora and that of Tiberias, the special status of the Aleppo Codex and the mystery surrounding it. Special attention is given to the comparison between the Aleppo Codex and the Leningrad Codex (B 19a). In addition, the book discusses the relationship between the Masora and other tangential domains: the grammar of the Hebrew language, the interpretation of the Bible, and the Halakha. The appendix to the book contains a description of books and computer software that are tools for researching the Masora. The book is based on the author's research and the research of the great scholars of the Masora in recent generations. It is a necessary tool for anyone interested in the text of the Bible and its crystallization.

Few articles in this issue: Ruti Bardenstein and Noam Frey | The Secularization of Hebrew slixa (‘Sorry’, ‘Excuse Me’, ‘Pardon’) Mitka R. Golub | The Element בעל in Personal Names from Archaeological Excavations in the Land of Israel during the Iron Age II Period and from the Bible Chanoch Gamiel | Two Different Lexical Approaches: Rashi vs. Ibn Ezra Jonathan Howard | The Biblical Text of Gesenius–Kautzsch: An Addendum to Halivni’s Paper Yehonatan Wormser | From פֵּאוּר to דָּגֶש לְתִפְאֶרֶת הַקְּרִיאָה: Change and Development in the Use of a Hebrew Grammatical Term

Few articles in this issue: Uri Ehrlich and Vered Raziel-Kretzmer | Prose or Poetry? - Clarifying the Eretz Israel Version of the ‘You Smote’ Passage in the Maʿariv Prayer Avi Shmidman | Did Palestinian Qinnot Serve as Seliḥot in the Babylonian Rite? Michael Rand | Interdigitated Piyyutim and the Principle of Polyphonic Performance in Late Eastern Piyyut Ophir Münz-Manor | Analog Piyyut in a Digital World: Towards Computational Study of Payytanic Literature Eden Hacohen | ‘God has made the one as well as the other’ ‒ Parallels and their Deconstruction in Piyyut Dalet of Yannai’s Qedushta’ot

Purchase other products in the kit: Textbook and Workbook / Textbook and Workbook for Arabic speakers / Audio / Shuvi: Audio, Picture and Text / Teacher's Guide The presentation accompanies the book First and Foremost in terms of both content and vocabulary and linguistic forms. It is aimed at teachers as well as students. In it you will find explanations, demonstrations, exercises, songs, links and more, which will assist in teaching and learning the content and the linguistic topics discussed in the book. The presentation offers a visual and sometimes vocal display of the material. It combines visualization and audio (using links or audio files imbedded in the presentation). It also offers access to fully prepared lesson plan, additional exercises, additional explanations, links referring to further, enriching materials and more. Guidance and instructions to teaching and learning accompany each slide. They can be translated into any language using an embedded Google Translate feature and may assist teachers as well as students.

Purchase other products in this kit: Textbook and workbook / Textbook and workbook for Arabic speakers / Shuvi: An audio program / Audio sequences / Teacher's guide The audio program Shuvy – The Girl from Israel accompanies the book First and Foremost in terms of content, vocabulary and linguistic forms. The texts in this program are consistent with the chapters of the book. They deal with the topics discussed in the chapters. The audio was composed as speech recordings, and their language is less formal than that of the written texts. We recommend listening to the recordings during or after studying with the book. First read aloud the questions then listen to the recording three times. After each time you listen, answer the questions in writing, gradually completing all the answers. The recordings are available in high-speed or low-speed. The audio sequences can be listen to only by an online access on a computer and NOT on a mobile device.

Please note: The audio sequences cannot be downloaded to any device and are accessed only via the Magnes website. In order to listen to the audio please log into the Magnes website, then click your name, MY AUDIO and LISTEN NOW. Upon purchasing this product you will be able to listen to 21 files matching the texts in the textbook Hebrew Matters . The files are arranged in the order of the appearance of the texts in the book, by chapter. Titles and page numbers appear under the name of each chapter.

This is an exam booklet for beginners, which accompanies the textbook Hebrew from Scratch Part I . The booklet follows the 28 chapters of the textbook, and contains 29 exams that correspond with the chapters. It is intended for students who wish to test themselves independently at the end of each chapter in order to assess their level of knowledge and capabilities. The booklet could also benefit teachers as an exam bank.

This anthology is a collection of stories, written by women at the turn of the twentieth century and published in the Yiddish press at that time. The have been translated to Hebrew for the first time. From its beginning the Yiddish press enabled all levels of society to sound their voices. Women too were quick to meet this challenge, and until the First World War more than ninety of their works were published: novellas, plays, fiction and a wide variety of short stories. This collection of nineteen stories represents this abundance and its unique qualities. It sounds anew the voices of forgotten women authors, who disappeared even from the eyes of critics and researchers: Maria Lerner, Isabella, Rokhl Brokhes, Yente Serdetsky, Salome Perl, Rokhl Feigenberg and others. Their stories open a window to the world of women at a time of dramatic changes in the lives of Jews in the Russian Empire. They portray conflicts between the generations, especially between the authors and their mothers, the dilemmas of love, and the anguished movement between the small town and the big city, between maintaining traditions and breaking free of frameworks. These stories highly enrich our knowledge of Jewish society at that time and are a fundamental expression of the part women played in that society.

The dictionary is the fruit of a three-decade long research on the vocabulary distinctive of the contemporary Georgian-Jewish language, and especially its Hebrew component. This research is based on ongoing field work performed in various places in Georgia and in Israel. The vocabulary reflects the uniqueness of the language and culture, and to a large extent also the anthropology and history of the community of Georgian Jews.

Please note: The audio sequences cannot be downloaded to any device and are accessed only via the Magnes website. In order to listen to the audio please log into the Magnes website, then click your name, MY AUDIO and LISTEN NOW. Upon purchasing this product you will be able to listen to 116 files matching the texts in the textbook Kriat Beynaim . The files were recorded in order to help students develop listening skills, pronounce words and improve reading skills. The files are arranged in the order of the appearance of the texts in the book, by chapter. The narrator specifies at the beginning of each segment the number of the page it refers to. All of the files were recorded in standard Hebrew, according to the pronunciation rules of the Academy of the Hebrew Language.

Chronicle of French and Ottoman Kings was written by a sixteenth-century Jewish doctor of Spanish origin living in Italy. According to the writer, his intention was to document the hardships and injustices suffered by Jews in the Diaspora - especially the expulsion of Jews from Spain and France - and include them in the history of the conflict between the French kinds and Ottoman Empire over the rule in "the land of Judea and Jerusalem." In effect, this is a story, set in chronological order, of selected events in world history, similar in structure and content to hundreds of writings published at the time. It was written in fine biblical Hebrew, and as such was aimed at an audience who knew the language and could appreciate the conflict between the French kings and the Ottoman Empire as representing world history.