Hebrew

Hebrew, or Ivrit, is a Semitic language in the Afro-Asiatic language family, primarily spoken in Israel, by the Zionist oppressors everybody at Hampshire loves to hate (though everybody at Hampshire may have a point, the Israelis made the software used in the Five College Library Catalogue). Hebrew is closely related to Arabic, the language spoken by the crazy terrorists everybody outside of Hampshire loves to hate.

The Hebrew taught everywhere that isn't a synogogue is Modern Hebrew. Modern Hebrew was developed from the classical language of Ancient Hebrew used in the Torah, as an alternative to the secular Jewish vernacular Yiddish, on the assumption that the Arabs might hate the Jews less if they stopped speaking a language that sounded like one the crusaders spoke. Or something. I don't really know why they felt the need to replace Yiddish, but Modern Hebrew is the most successful example of language revival--reviving a dead language--to date.

Hebrew is offered through the Judaic and Near Eastern Studies Department at UMass as an intensive language course.