About This Course
This course is designed to help students go beyond merely decoding traditional Jewish texts and to learn to read for meaning. Unlike Hebrew courses designed to develop facility with spoken-language Hebrew, this course is geared to taking traditional liturgical and biblical texts, and learning to break them down word-by-word: by prefixes, suffixes, into familiar root words and base words. The course will involve grammar drills and worksheets, practice in declension and conjugation, etc. Very old school.
The first class will be taken up with an assessment so that we can establish a starting level for the class and for each student. The books required for the course are a Hebrew-text סִידוּר and חוּמַשׁ.
Join the live classes on Zoom Tuesdays at 8 pm Eastern Time (US & Canada) here, starting May 24, 2022.
Required Reading
Prayerbook Hebrew the Easy Way
Meet Your Instructor
Daniel Mond is a lecturer and teacher in Jewish studies and in film, and has taught and lectured on 4 continents, in 5 countries. He has a Master of Hebrew and Jewish Studies with Distinction from the University of London, a Master of Education from OISE in Toronto, both a First Class Honours degree and a Diploma of Education from Monash University in Australia, and he read for a Doctorate in Philosophy, at King's College, Cambridge. Daniel also was a recipient of the prestigious Jerusalem Fellowship from 1989-1991; where he specialized in media for Jewish education. He came to the US from Israel to do a Master of Fine Arts in Film at Columbia University, and has lectured in film at both NYU and Baruch College and was a film reviewer for the Ma’ariv newspaper in Israel. Daniel currently teaches Tanakh in New York.
Fun facts: Daniel represented Australia twice in the International Bible competition, and, as a recipient of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Award, he met and joked with Prince Charles.
MA, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of London
MFA, Film, Columbia University
MEd, Curriculum Development, University of Toronto
This course made all the words I speak/sing make sense, so quickly! The teacher is very engaging and reinforces positively. The deep end isn’t so scary with his methods. Very happy!😊