[1] According to Solomon Skoss, it was a supplement of a project entitled The basic word list of the Arabic daily newspaper elaborated by the same two authors as well as Moshe Brill and published by the Hebrew University Press in 1940.
[2] This earlier project sought to identify the most frequently occurring words in Arabic newspapers for the purposes of assisting teachers and textbook writers for secondary schools and evening classes for the Jewish community in Palestine.
[1] The Arabic-Hebrew Dictionary covered, primarily, the most frequently used words in Arabic newspapers published in Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, and Iraq, according to statistical analysis.
[1] In addition, Arabic-Hebrew Dictionary contains material from modern Arabic literature and periodicals, focusing on terminology used in political, economic and social sciences.
[1] One of the two authors served in the army, at which time a certain graduate of the Institute of Oriental Studies named Mr. A. Greenblatt assisted with the preparation of the dictionary.