Unlocking Leshon Hakodesh (with Prof. Eliezer (Lewis) Glinert)

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of this farm chatter podcast. On this episode of the podcast, I'm going to be joined by Professor Elazar Lewis Glennard, who is professor of Hebrew studies at Dartmouth College and an honorary member of the Hebrew Language Academy. And we'll be discussing his brand new book, which is titled Unlocking Lashesh, a guide to the Hebrew language, which is published by Mosaic Press. I I should also mention that his prior book the story of Hebrew was actually nominated for a pullet surprise and that was published by Princeton University press. So most of his books published by academic presses. This one is actually published by Mosaical press a press so to speak. So thank you professor Glender for joining me. >> Good evening. >> Good evening. >> Let's start off tell the listeners a little bit about yourself and your background. I grew up in um uh Stampford Hill, which is um one of the most traditional parts of London. And um I got a schooling that would be called, I suppose, um semi uh form that it was a school where uh it opened the doors to every Jewish child who had applied. Um it was run by yeas uh Jewish refugees it was run by yeas uh Jewish refugees from Germany, but the um uh education I got was a mixture of um refugees from Poland teaching me um muma at the tender age of seven and per kamovkid and teaching me uh a lot of other things that would be part of let's call it um ordinary everyday life. And at the age of 11, I went to what you call public school and what in England we call

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