Five other students joined the pilot program of Jewish and Hebrew studies launched by Peking University in the mid-1980s.

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They pointed to Yale's Hebrew and Jewish studies courses as proof of the university's support for free inquiry on the topic.

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Salameh says she enjoys the collegial atmosphere at Hebrew University, where she studies among Israeli Arab, international and Israeli students.

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He added systematically to his store of languages, among them Hebrew, which he learnt at 70 to help his studies of the Bible.

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He is a Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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