For the first time in two decades, a two-semester course in elementary Hebrew will be offered in the Fall 1971 semester by the linguistics department of Syracuse University, Dean John James Prucha announced here today. According to a University spokesman, the Hebrew course had been phased out of the linguistics program twenty years ago because of “lack of student interest.” The course was being revived, Dean Prucha explained, because of renewed interest in the Hebrew language by the Jewish student body at the University. Subsequent courses in the language will be offered depending upon the response in the 1971-1972 academic year, he said. Instructors for the course have not yet been appointed.
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