To this day our language has kept its stony, concentrated, concise character, striving for the essential. This makes Hebrew practically untranslatable; a phrase of three words in Hebrew becomes a phrase of eighteen words in French, so you can imagine what it does to poetry.

— Shulamith Hareven The Vocabulary of Peace: Life, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East (1995)

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