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Hebrew children's literature
Hebrew children's literature (ספרות הילדים העברית) is the body of prose, poetry, and picture books written in Hebrew for children, emerging around 1900 and playing a key role in nation building.
Hebrew elegy
A Hebrew elegy, קינה (qinah, plural qinot), is a lament or dirge composed over a death or a destruction, exemplified by David's laments and the book of Lamentations.
Hebrew essay
The Hebrew essay (Hebrew: מַסָּה) is a short reflective work of nonfiction that became a distinct genre of modern Hebrew literature in the late nineteenth century.
Hebrew ethical will
A Hebrew ethical will, Hebrew tzava'ah (plural tzava'ot), is a document in which a Jewish parent or teacher conveys moral and religious instruction, usually in anticipation of death.
Hebrew fable
A Hebrew fable (משל, mashal) is a short fictional Hebrew tale, usually with talking animals and a moral lesson, running from the Hebrew Bible through rabbinic literature to the medieval collections.
Hebrew Holocaust literature
Hebrew Holocaust literature (Hebrew: ספרות השואה) is the body of poetry, fiction, drama, and memoir written in Hebrew in response to the Holocaust, produced mainly in Palestine and Israel from 1945 onward.
Hebrew language
Hebrew (עברית, Ivrit) is a Northwest Semitic, Canaanite language spanning over three millennia, divided into Biblical, Rabbinic, Medieval, and Modern periods; revived as Israel's official spoken language after 1890 language-planning by Ben-Yehuda's Va'ad HaLashon.
Hebrew literary criticism
Hebrew literary criticism (ביקורת ספרות עברית) is the practice of evaluating and interpreting Hebrew literature, arising with the eighteenth-century Haskalah and later centered in Israel.
Hebrew lyric poetry
Hebrew lyric poetry is first-person poetry in Hebrew expressing love, nature, mourning, or reflection, spanning biblical psalms, medieval verse in Spain, and modern Israeli poetry.
Hebrew name
Hebrew name: a personal name of Hebrew origin or one given in Jewish ritual use, distinct from legal names. Covers biblical naming, categories, Ashkenazi and Sephardi customs, and modern Israeli name statistics.
Hebrew novel
The Hebrew novel (רומן) is the tradition of extended prose fiction in Hebrew, conventionally dated from Abraham Mapu's Ahavat Ziyyon, published in Vilna in 1853.
Hebrew numerals
Hebrew numerals (gematria values): a quasi-decimal alphabetic numeral system using the 22 Hebrew letters, no zero, additive values, final letters for 500-900, derived from Greek alphabetic numerals around 125-100 BC, still used in calendars and gematria.
Hebrew Orphan Asylum
The Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York was a Jewish orphanage in Manhattan, founded in 1860 by the Hebrew Benevolent Society; it cared for more than 35,000 children before closing in 1941.
Hebrew parody
Hebrew parody is the imitation of biblical or Talmudic Hebrew style for comic or satiric effect, an ancient genre whose most developed branch is written for Purim.
Hebrew satire
Hebrew satire (סאטירה עברית) is satirical writing composed in Hebrew, mocking people and ideas in comic form; it has been a significant Jewish literary genre since the late eighteenth century.
Hebrew short story
The Hebrew short story (הסיפור העברי הקצר) is short prose fiction in Hebrew, central to modern Hebrew literature from the late nineteenth century onward, written by writers like Agnon and Amos Oz.
Hebrew sonnet
The Hebrew sonnet (סונטה) is the fourteen-line European verse form as written in Hebrew, first composed by Immanuel of Rome around 1300 and revived by Shaul Tchernichovsky.
Hebrew travelogue
A Hebrew travelogue is a travel account written in Hebrew, a genre that emerged during the Crusades as European Jews resumed pilgrimage to Jerusalem and other Levantine holy places.
Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion
Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR), also called Hebrew Union College, is the Reform Judaism seminary founded in 1875 in Cincinnati by Isaac Mayer Wise, with campuses in Cincinnati, New York, Los Angeles, and Jerusalem, now consolidating rabbinical education after closing its Cincinnati program in 2026.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים), HUJI, is a research university opened on Mount Scopus in 1925: six campuses, about 23,500 students, 10 Nobel Prizes, 88th in the 2025 Shanghai Ranking.
Hebrew wine song
The Hebrew wine song, or shirei yayin, is a genre of Hebrew poetry in praise of wine, modeled on the Arabic khamriyya and flourishing in medieval Spain.
Hebrew Writers Association
The Hebrew Writers Association is the professional association of Hebrew-language writers and poets in Israel, founded in 1921 in Tel Aviv by Haim Nahman Bialik.
Hebrews
Hebrews (ʿibrî, עברי), the biblical ancestors of the Israelites, a Semitic-speaking ancient Near Eastern people; 34 Old Testament occurrences; first external attestation of Israel on the Merneptah Stele c. 1208 BCE; debated Habiru/Apiru identification.
Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America
Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America is a 2018 documentary by Ronald Dalton Jr., based on his book series, promoting Black Hebrew Israelite claims that Black Americans are the true Israelites and modern Jews are Khazar imposters; it drew wide attention after Kyrie Irving shared it in 2022.
Hebrides
The Hebrides (Innse Gall), over 500 islands off western Scotland in two groups, Inner and Outer, separated by the Minch; gneissic Outer islands, Tertiary volcanic Inner islands, Norse-Gaelic heritage, ferry-dependent economy.
Hebron
Hebron (Al-Khalil) is the second-largest Palestinian city in the West Bank, with over 200,000 people and a UNESCO-listed Old Town in danger, divided since 1997 into H1 and H2.
Hebron Oil and Gas Field
The Hebron oil field is an offshore field in the Jeanne d'Arc Basin on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland, Canada, producing heavy oil since 2017 from a concrete gravity-based platform operated by ExxonMobil.
Hebrus Valles
Hebrus Valles is an Early Amazonian outflow channel system southeast of Utopia Planitia, Mars, about 350 km long, whose floodwaters vanished into subsurface caverns; lab experiments reproduce its pit-and-trough terminus.
Hec Hogan
Hec Hogan (Hector Dennis Hogan, 1931–1960), Australian sprinter; bronze in the 100m at Melbourne 1956, joint 100 yards world record holder at 9.3s, seven national 100 yards titles; died of leukemia in 1960.
HEC Paris
HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) is a French grande école of business founded in 1881, at Jouy-en-Josas near Paris, ranked among Europe's leading business schools.