Literature

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The Little Princess – Royal Virtue Signaling from Steimatzky Publishing

/ Hebrew, Literature / 5 minutes of reading

Steimatzky (סְטִימָצְקִי in Hebrew) is the oldest and largest bookstore chain in Israel. The Chain was officially founded in 1925 by Tzvi Steimatzky and his half-brother Yechezkel Steimatzky five years after Tzvi Steimatzky had opened the first bookstore in Tel Aviv in 1920. Back then its primary focus was foreign language books as Hebrew wasn’t …

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Talking Trees and Bushes – Discourse Representation in Hebrew Vegetation

/ Hebrew, Etymology, Literature / 14 minutes of reading

In this post we are going to look into the two types of plants we tend to keep in the garden and help them grow – trees and bushes, and see it related to the concepts of snakes and weeds we examined in a previous post. Bush in Hebrew The Hebrew word for bush or …

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The Mirror of Galadriel

A Question of Reflection – Between The Mirror of Galadriel and Neo’s Spoon

/ Hebrew, Literature, TV / 11 minutes of reading

The Mirror of Galadriel is one of my favorite parts in The Lord of the Rings story. The first time I read the book I was too young to understand its true meaning and hidden symbolism. I simply assumed it was an elven-made crystal ball of sorts, i.e., a mystical device that can pierce through …

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Rings of Power

Rings of Cower – Why opposing Black Elves in Amazon’s new show is NOT racist

/ Politics, Elvish, Literature, TV / 12 minutes of reading

Gather around children! Today we are going to hear the tale of Ar-Amazôn and the Rings of Power. Oh, it is a tale as old as time itself. A story about a man who had everything, yet knew no satisfaction, and always craved for more. So vain a man Ar-Amazôn was, he gathered all his …

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Jumping Jacobs – More deep Hebrew insights from Dune

/ Cinema, Arabic, Etymology, Hebrew, Literature / 6 minutes of reading

Working on doing research for the post ‘Buried in the Sand – Hebrew as a Language of Desert People’ made me realize I had some huge misconceptions about two of the main pillar terms in the world of Dune and its mythology, and about the word ‘jump’ in Hebrew. One of the terms – Kwisatz …

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