Unlocking Leshon Hakodesh is a user-friendly guide to the Hebrew of Tanach and Chazal. Based on the Rishonim and enhanced with modern-day linguistics, this sefer goes beyond teaching basic dikduk to delving into the realms of syntax and semantics as well. Perfect for teachers, students, and all who love the Hebrew language. Designed for page-by-page study or quick reference Indexed to Tehillim, Navi, and the parshiyos Includes stimulating extras — Test Yourself, Points to Ponder, and Did You Know? — in every section “The knowledge of dikduk is basic in understanding Torah. I therefore commend Professor Eliezer Glinert…for sharing some of his knowledge with Klal Yisrael.” Rabbi David Cohen, Brooklyn “This work will be of great benefit to Torah students at all levels—from beginners to accomplished talmidei chachamim.” Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz, Jerusalem About the author: Eliezer Glinert is professor of Hebrew Studies at Dartmouth College and an honorary member of the Hebrew Language Academy. His recent book, The Story of Hebrew, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. A talmid of Rabbi Aryeh Carmell, z’’l, he received semichah from Rabbi Daniel Channen. Eliezer (Lewis) Glinert is Professor of Hebrew Studies at Dartmouth College and an honorary member of the Hebrew Language Academy. His book The Story of Hebrew (Princeton 2017) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Educated in London’s Stamford Hill, where his mentor was Rav Aryeh Carmell, z”l, he graduated from Oxford in 1971 and gained a PhD in linguistics from London University. He has held appointments in Hebrew linguistics at Haifa University and Bar-Ilan, chaired the Centre for Jewish Studies at London University, and took up his Dartmouth professorship in 1997. Glinert is the author of over eighty articles on Jewish language and on medication and safety communication, among them “Modern linguistics as a tool in Torah study,” HaMaayan 26, 1985; “Language choice in Halakhic speech acts,” in Essays in Honor of Joshua A. Fishman, 1991; (with Kate Loewenthal and Vivienne Goldblatt) “Guarding the tongue: A thematic analysis of gossip control strategies among Orthodox Jewish women in London,” JMMD, 2004; “Chemotherapy as language: sound symbolism in cancer medication names,” Social Science and Medicine, 2008; and “Communication and discourse in the medication experience,” Pharmacy, 2021. His books include The Grammar of Modern Hebrew (Cambridge 1989); Hebrew in Ashkenaz: A Language in Exile (Oxford 1993); and (with co-author Jon Schommer) A Screenful of Sugar? Prescription Drug Websites Investigated (Peter Lang 2014). He received semichah from Rabbi Daniel Channen.
