Discover the rich and variegated world of Ashkenazic Hebrew and Aramaic, from medieval piyutim (rabbinic poems that enter the liturgy, such as Akdómus) and the Passover song Khad Gádyo, through diverse rabbinic writings over the centuries, the great Hebrew poets of the nineteenth and early twentieth century Hebrew revival (including the original of Israel’s anthem), through to today’s vast Haredi world. The course aims at degrees of emphasis on religious and secular Ashkenazic creativity over the last thousand years of Jewish history that are correlate, as far as possible, with the empirical output of any given period or milieu.