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Either, ither, neither, nither, let's call the whole thing
a question of background.
ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Q: I noticed in a recent column
that Tell Me Why claims to be able
to find the answer to almost any-
thing. I have been puzzled for years
to know what language Adam and
Eve spoke?
Q: Yes, there was Lassie. There
was National Velvet. There
was Benji and there was even
Jaws.
But let's lay it on the line. When
it comes down to read animal tal-
ent, Francis the Talking Mule was
the cat's pajamas. By any chance
did that fine donkey have a Jewish
connection?
A: Indeed he did — and aren't
Q: Why is it that some people say
Shabbos and others say Shabbat?
A: Shabbos is the Ashkenazi
pronunciation and Shabbat is
the modern Hebrew pronunci-
ation used in Israel.
As with most other lan-
From reader P.K.
guages, Hebrew is spoken with
A: This answer won't be
a variety of accents and pro-
Greek to you, dear reader.
nunciations. The two main
The general assumption
types of pronunciations preva-
among traditional Jewish
lent in American Jewry are
Torah commentators is that the
what
are commonly referred to
language of discourse in the we proud!
as Ashkenazi and Sephardi.
Francis
might
never
have
Garden of
The Ashkenazi pro-
Eden was
nunciation is used pri-
Hebrew.
marily by Jews from a
All of the
Yiddish-speaking back-
Eden dia-
ground or whose ances-
logue is quot-
tors came from Europe
ed in Hebrew.
(excluding, for the most
The names of
part, the Mediterranean
Adam and
region). Its main features
Eve are He-
are the pronunciation of
brew word
the vowel kamatz as "o"
plays: Adam
and of the consonant soft
from adama,
tav as "s," with the stress
or earth, and
on varying syllables. In
Eve (Chava)
the United States, it is
from chai, or
the pronunciation of most
life.
Orthodox Jews, and of
Other com-
non-Orthodox Jews who
mentators
received their Hebrew ed-
believe that
ucation up to the 1960s.
Adam and
The Sephardi pronun-
Eve spoke a
ciation is based on the
protolan-
form of spoken Hebrew
guage from
developed in the 1800s in
which devel-
Jerusalem by Eliezer
oped the
Ben-Yehuda (1858-1922,
world's myr-
the "father of modern He-
iad forms of
brew") and by educator
speech, with
David Yellin (1864-1941).
the Torah
By the early 1900s, it was
recording the
established as the stan-
historic
dard of Hebrew of the
events in He-
Zionist community in Is-
brew.
rael. In America, it first
Through-
was taught only in Zion-
out the ages
ist Hebrew schools. By
there have
the 1960s, it was the pro-
been those
nunciation used in most
who believed
non-Orthodox Hebrew
this proto- Getting ready for Shabbat and Shabbos.
schools and in Zionist Or-
language
thodox Hebrew schools.
was Hebrew. In 1759, Samuel seen the Silver Screen (dare we
The main features of the
Johnson, first president of even ponder such a thought?) if Sephardi dialect are the pro-
King's College (today Columbia not for Arthur Lubin.
nunciation of the vowel kamatz
University), declared that He-
Born in 1901 in Los An as "a" and of both the soft and
brew is "the mother of all geles, Lubin - directed all hard tav as "t." Words generally
tongues." And Aryeh Leib those truly wonderful pictures. are pronounced with the accent
Kinderfreund (1788-1837), a He also was responsible on the last syllable.
Galician poet and teacher, for the 1943 film version,
wrote a treatise in Latin in a show that, like a powerful
Send questions to "Tell Me Why"
which he tried to prove that case of bad breath, just won't
c. o The Jewish News, 27676
all languages stern from fade away: Phantom of the Franklin. Rd., Southfield, MI
Hebrew.
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