ALSO BY DOUGLAS R. HOFSTADTER: Please see the sidebar to my review of Hofstadter's G del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid for a list of books written by Prof. Hofstadter. A WORD ABOUT HEBREW WORDS Hofstadter claims that Hebrew has valiantly sought to resist the influx of Western words for all sorts of things (p. 295). He goes on to say that there exists an official council in Israel that ...