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Polis Jerusalem

Institute of Languages and Humanities
Polis The Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities is an academic Institution with three main areas: Ancient and Modern Languages, Masters programs and specialized conferences. It is placed in Musrara, close to the Old City of Jerusalem, below the Municipality.

Polis has a particular interest on the roots of the Western Culture, and promote the direct access to the sources in the original languages. The Polis method for learning languages makes use of all the modern systems for learning (Total Physical Response, Story Telling, Story Building, etc.), and applies them to ancient languages. In the classroom the learning language is the only one spoken from the beginning.

The Institute has courses of Biblical Hebrew, Koine Greek, Aramaic, Syriac, Latin, among the ancient languages, and some modern languages as Modern Hebrew, Colloquial Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic (using Arabic writing) and Spanish.

The first masters program is on Ancient Philology and a second on Semitic Philology is on preparation.