Cursive Hebrew

The modern Hebrew script (Hebrew: כתב רהוט, ketav Rahut = " flowing script " ) goes back to Ashkenazi script fonts that were, inter alia, in Germany and Poland in use. In the years 1713-1715 was published in Amsterdam a guide to business correspondence in Hebrew, which was printed in specially cut for this purpose letters in cursive.

The script is used for Yiddish and Hebrew square script and how the 22 consonants, with five special end shapes for the letters Kaf, Mem, Well, Pe and Zade. Vowel signs are not used.

The Hebrew script is sometimes referred to as Hebrew italics; this term is misleading, however, that in contrast to German italics (eg output fonts) or Arabic script, the letters are not connected within a word in the rule, but remain isolated.