Introduction 1Part 1: Getting Started with Hebrew 7Chapter 1: You Already Know Some Hebrew 9Chapter 2: The Nitty-Gritty: Basic Hebrew Grammar 27Chapter 3: Shalom, Shalom!: Meeting and Greeting 45Part 2: Hebrew in Action 63Chapter 4: Getting to Know You: Making Small Talk 65Chapter 5: Eat! Eat! You're So Thin! 81Chapter 6: Going Shopping 105Chapter 7: Having Fun Hebrew Style 121Chapter 8: Enjoying Your Free Time: Hobbies, Sports, and Other Fun Activities 141Chapter 9: Talking on the Phone 157Chapter 10: At the Office and Around the House 171Part 3: Hebrew on the Go 189Chapter 11: Planning and Taking a Trip 191Chapter 12: Getting Around: Flying, Driving, and Riding 221Chapter 13: Money, Money, Money 235Chapter 14: Handling Emergencies 249Part 4: Diving Deeper into Hebrew Life 265Chapter 15: An Introduction to Israel 267Chapter 16: War and Peace 279Part 5: Sacred Hebrew 287Chapter 17: Let's Get Biblical 289Chapter 18: Like a Prayer 299Chapter 19: Sacred Time, Sacred Space 315Part 6: The Part of Tens 331Chapter 20: Ten Books on Hebrew You Just Gotta Have 333Chapter 21: Ten Favorite Hebrew Expressions 337Chapter 22: Ten Great Israeli Phrases 341Appendix A: Verb Tables 345Appendix B: Hebrew-English Mini-Dictionary 355Appendix C: Answer Key 377Index 383
Jill Suzanne Jacobs is a fluent Hebrew speaker having picked up the language through study, three years of living in Israel, and multiple extended visits. She holds graduate degrees in Jewish and Israel education, and she taught in the classroom for ten years before moving into leadership roles in educational nonprofits. She is the author of the first edition of Hebrew For Dummies and mom to a second generation diaspora Hebrew speaker.
