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Gilead Morahg Gilead Morahg is Professor of Hebrew literature and Chairman of the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He serves as Executive Vice President of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew and as Associate Editor of Hebrew Studies. He is the author of numerous articles on contemporary Israeli fiction and on the teaching of Hebrew in American universities. In 1989 the National Association of Professors of Hebrew identified 93 active modern Hebrew programs in American colleges and universities. 1 Seventy-nine of these institutions responded to an NAPH survey of enrollment levels and enrollment trends. The responding institutions constitute 85% of those that offer modern Hebrew, and they include all of the major programs in the country. These institutions reported a total enrollment of 5,115 students in modern Hebrew courses at the beginning of the 1989-90 academic year. They also indicated that the rumors about the impending demise of Hebrew on American campuses have been greatly exaggerated. In addition to providing enrollment figures, each institution was asked to indicate the enrollment trends in its modern Hebrew program during the past five years. The results show increasing enrollments in 54% of the responding
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies – Purdue University Press
Published: Oct 3, 1991
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