How to check if string is in Hebrew

Hebrew is within the unicode range 0x590 to 0x5ff.

I tried
if lang_string[0] >= u'0x590' and lang_string[0] <= u'0x5ff':

but it does not seem to work.

How do I check if lang_string is in Hebrew or not. Using Python 2.5,
Django 1.2

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