Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

Yitzhak,

Being fluent in both Hebrew and Yiddish I know that Zuckerman's claim  
is inherently wrong. Also your claim that Hebrew owes "a lot of debt  
to Yiddish" is not, in my knowledge, even remotely substantiated. And  
what is "a lot", does this constitute a measure for something?

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Oct 29, 2007, at 11:17 AM, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:

> On 10/29/07, Isaac Fried wrote:
> > Yitzhak,
> >
> > Your statement to the effect that "Modern spoken Hebrew is a hybrid
> > language" is not only baseless and senseless, but is also an outright
> > religiously motivated sectarian diatribe. It provides good  
> > indication as to
> > the quality and sincerely of everything else you say, here and  
> > elsewhere.
>
> You can read the following on these issues:
> http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/wp/2006/11/30/hebrew-or-israeli- 
> linguistics-and-zionism/
> Abba, Why was Prof. Higgins Trying to teach Eliza to speak like our
> cleaning lady:
> http://www.zuckermann.org/pdf/abba.pdf
> Israeli as a Semi-Engineered Semito-European Language:
> http://www.zuckermann.org/pdf/multiple-causation.pdf
>
> Now, I don't know if I accept Zuckerman's analysis of Modern Hebrew  
> completely,
> and I definitely feel that he is mistaken on many details regarding
> Biblical Hebrew,
> but it is clear that Modern Hebrew is not simply a continuation of  
> Mishnaic
> Hebrew, but also has a lot of debt to Yiddish.
>
> There is also a chapter on Israeli Hebrew in The Semitic Languages,  
> ed.
> Hetzron, 1997 by Ruth Berman.
>
> Yitzhak Sapir
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