Monday, February 11, 2013

Muslim conference on Hebrew language and culture

INTERESTING:
Muslims Host First Ever Hebrew Conference Held in South Asia

By: Jewish Press News Briefs
Published:
February 11th, 2013

The first-ever Hebrew language and culture conference in South Asia was hosted at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi and organized by none other than Muslims scholars in a show of Muslim-Jewish amity in India.

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The topics listed are wide ranging and seem to encompass the full range of Jewish history:
The conference focused on literature and psychology; language and religion; names in ancient and modern Hebrew; Halakhah, Jewish identity and modernization; law and language; Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic and the mutual influences; the language of the Bible, as well as sessions held on the Indian Jews, and India in Hebrew Literature and Hebrew in India.