Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar

by Lewis Glinert and Lewis Gilinert

Book Overview

This new edition of Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar is an up-to-date and practical reference guide to the most important aspects of modern Hebrew as used by contemporary native speakers of the language.

It presents an accessible description of the language, focusing on the real patterns of use today. The Grammar aims to serve as a reference source for the learner and user of Hebrew irrespective of level, by setting out...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138809217
• ISBN13: 9781138809215
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 5.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Simply the best

This is simply the best review of modern Hebrew grammar I have come across. It is both logical and comprehensive as well as easy to read and is equally useful to those first studying Hebrew, as well as for those who need a refresher.

well done

this is a great reference book to modern hebrew. "fresh and accessible" is what it says on the back of the book, and this is exactly how i'd describe it. there are only 104 pages worth of grammar in this book, but in that space it manages to convey all the important aspects of hebrew as it's spoken today -- i.e. making clear the differences between the textbook hebrew you find in many grammars, and actual usage. it's very well organized and the examples are colloquial and quite entertaining [e.g., section 62 on generic plurals -- example sentences are "i hate cockroaches" and "vacuum cleaners always go wrong"].

Very useful, very clear

Like other books in the Routledge "Essential Grammar" series that I've come across, this book is well-written and covers immediately useful aspects of the grammar of the language. I am particularly impressed by the author's pointing out of the frequent differences between "standard textbook" Hebrew and colloquial Hebrew as spoken by the man in the street--if you already have some command of the language from formal study and want to make your Hebrew less "schoolboy" and more colloquial, this book will help a lot in that respect.The example sentences in this book, as in Prof. Glinert's longer grammar of Modern Hebrew, deserve special mention, but as they are frequently mentioned in other reviews, I won't belabor the point.

Not a Teach Yourself Manual

I found this concise grammar to be extremely accessible and helpful after having completed a couple of years of Hebrew at university. I continue to come back to it for refreshers.If you don't know any Hebrew yet, or you know very little, this book is not going to teach it to you. Spend some time with a good book-and-tape set, take a course, then buy Glinert.

Most fun grammar book I've ever read!

I LOVE the example sentences Prof. Glinert uses to illustrate each point. They are so conversational, I feel like I'm back in Israel. I've looked over quite a few grammar books in various languages with b-o-o-o-o-o-r-i-n-g example sentences, and this book is such a refreshing change. Also, it is concise and not too exhaustive, so that it makes easy reading, but covers the most important points.