“A truly beautiful letter,” writes Izzy Pludwinski in his book “The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter” (Brandeis University Press, 2023), “will possess a dynamism, an internal lifeforce.” The book ...

“In Hebrew, most of the identifying characteristics of letters’ forms are near the bottom part,” she said. “When I went to check Arabic, I crossed my fingers that they would be on the top ...

Izzy Pludwinski's Brush Aleph-bet, 2007, "The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter," Brandeis University Press. Modern Hebrew language is an indispensable key to the fullness of Jewish civilization and creates ...