[sw-l] hebrew sign language

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
April 3, 2005

Dear Nancy and Everyone!
What a wonderful List of intelligent and informed people we have!...

THANK YOU to all of you, for your great answers about Hebrew Sign
Language!  Val ;-)

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On Apr 2, 2005, at 9:42 PM, nemery at u.washington.edu wrote:

> Hi Shoshona,
>
> That's great that you're trying to find resources for this child.
>
> Sign languages derive from interactions in communities of Deaf people,
> not from spoken languages (or written versions of spoken languages).
> So as far as I know there isn't a Hebrew sign language, although there
> may be ways of encoding Hebrew on the hands.  (Like, there is Signed
> English, which is a code more than a language - it isn't the same as
> either American Sign Language or British Sign Language - which also
> aren't the same as each other.)
>
> There is an Israeli Sign Language - it seems like a lot of the
> research on it has been done by Irit Meir.  That would be understood
> by Deaf Israelis, but not by Deaf Jews of other countries, unless they
> had gone to Israel and learned it.
>
> If what you want is to help a Deaf child in England with Hebrew
> school, for example studying the Torah to prepare for a Bar or Bat
> Mitzvah, maybe it would be good to see if you can find anyone who
> interprets at a synagogue, or find a synagogue with Deaf members, or a
> Jewish interpreter who used to go to Hebrew school, somewhere in
> England.  Then you could find out how certain concepts in Hebrew can
> be expressed in British Sign Language, which is probably the sign
> language that the child is familiar with.
>
> There is a web-site that glosses a lot of Jewish services for American
> Sign Language (ASL) translation, by David Bar-Tzur, you can find it at
> http://www.theinterpretersfriend.com/songs/toc.html#jewish
> He has come up with an ASL interpretation, and written the English
> gloss to represent the ASL signs.  It might work to substitute British
> Sign Language signs if the grammars of ASL and BSL are similar enough.
>
> That's just my best guess - good luck!
>
> Nancy Emery  (in Seattle, USA)
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, bwhite wrote:
>
>> I too would be interested in Hebrew sign!!
>>
>> brenda
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Valerie Sutton
>> To: SIGNWRITING List
>> Cc: Shosh76765 at AOL.COM
>> Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 9:49 PM
>> Subject: [sw-l] hebrew sign language
>>
>>
>> SignWriting List
>> April 2, 2005
>>
>> From: Shosh76765 at aol.com
>> Date: April 2, 2005 2:43:26 PM PST
>> To: DAC at signwriting.org
>> Subject: hebrew sign language
>>
>>
>> hello
>> i was wondering if you could help me. i am from manchester uk, and i
>> look after special needs
> children. one of the children that i look after is deaf and i was
> wondering if you knew where i could go and find hebrew sign language.
>> you can contact me on: shosh76765 at aol.com
>>
>> thankyou for your help
>>
>> shoshana brennan
>