"A truly beautiful letter," writes the Israeli artist Izzy Pludwinski in his new book, "The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter," "will possess a dynamism, an internal lifeforce." "Letters," he adds, "are the ...

The rise of a whole new profession of calligraphy artists, often with little or no connection with tradition, has meant a new approach to the aleph-bet. A Hebrew scribe – sofer stam – has a special ...

They are written in Paleo-Hebrew, the precursor to the modern Hebrew script we use today, which dates from around the 10th century BCE. The latter takes influence from Aramaic and gained traction ...

Hillel Smith, “Who Brings Forth Bread from the Land” (2016) (image courtesy Brandeis University Press) “A beautiful Hebrew letter, as I understand it, needs to have not only surface beauty but also an ...

Israel in the Year 2000 is a Hebrew novel, published in Israel in 1951 by S. Goldflus. This is the first dystopian Hebrew ...

A ‘Queen Esther’ will be chosen for the Purim Ball – a typical example of Hebrew beauty from Tel Aviv. Esther will be the queen of the Purim ball and the queen of the procession that will take place ...

You are in: Manchester > Entertainment > Arts, Film and Culture > Arts and Literature > Hebrew beauty Yofi is an exhibition at the Craft and Design Centre which showcases ceramics and jewellery by ...