There’s a cursive Japanese script and cursive Hebrew. Virtually every civilization that managed to develop a system of writing eventually formulated a second, quickie version.

Georgia classrooms reintroduce cursive writing for students from third to fifth grade, making it part of assessed coursework.

Recently, Google updated their scribble-interpretation app to include five completely new languages: Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Hebrew, and Burmese.

Ben Garton, about whom little is known, probably came from a Spanish Jewish family. Certainly, as Mr. Warwick points out, the print he designed was based on the cursive handwriting of Spanish Jews ...