ABSTRACT
One of the signs of the revival of the Hebrew language in modern days is the growing eagerness of all students of the language to discover its correct pronunciation. The case of the Hebrew language differs, however, in one essential aspect from that of every other language spoken to-day. Hebrew is at present undergoing a process of resuscitation and regeneration. There are those who think that Jews have to do to attain humiliating experience to make the growing generation of Jews familiar with the Sephardi pronunciation. Thus the pronunciation of the Yemenite and Persian Jews has more in common with the pronunciation of the Ashkenazim than with that of the Sephardim. In view of the fact that there is no pronunciation of Hebrew at present in existence that could be described as the ideal pronunciation, the question that Jews have set out to answer can scarcely be decided on the strength of mere philological arguments.
