"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 ...

Alan Cheuse reviews Ladies and Gentlemen, The Original Music of the Hebrew Alphabet, two novellas by translator and scholar Curt Leviant, published by the University of Wisconsin press.

CU Boulder event, now in its 11th year, will schmooze it up on March 12 For the past decade, Hebrew classes at the University of Colorado Boulder have hosted a novel event described as a rite of ...