"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 ...

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The Hebrew alphabet lost five characters by a decree of the Ukrainian Commissariat of Education, acting upon request of the Jewish section of the Communist party. The ancient alphabet has five double ...

The movement to substitute the Latin alphabet for the ancient Hebrew letters has the support of Vladimir Jabotinsky. In a communication addressed to Ittamar Ben Avi, who recently initiated this ...