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Dola was one of six children born to Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and his second wife Hemda. She had two living half-siblings by Ben-Yehuda's first wife (and Hemda's sister) Devora, including Itamar Ben-Avi . In 1921, she married Max Wittmann, a German who became the first non-Jewish language activist in Palestine to found a Hebrew-only family with a ...
The Revival of a Classical Tongue: Eliezer Ben Yehuda and the Modern Hebrew Language. The Hague, Netherlands: Mouton. 1973. ISBN 90-279-2495-3; St. John, Robert (1952). Tongue of the Prophets. The Life Story of Eliezer Ben Yehuda. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company Inc. ISBN 0-8371-2631-2. Lang, Yosef . The Life of Eliezer Ben Yehuda.
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858–1922) (אליעזר בן יהודה) is often regarded as the "reviver of the Hebrew language" ("מחיה השפה העברית"): [8] he was the first to raise the concept of reviving Hebrew, to publish articles in newspapers on the topic, and he initiated the project known as the Ben-Yehuda Dictionary. [17]
Itamar Ben-Avi as a child. Itamar Ben-Avi was born as Ben-Zion Ben-Yehuda in Jerusalem on 31 July 1882, the son of Devora (née Jonas) and Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. [1] Eliezer is credited with reviving the Hebrew language; Itamar was brought up to be the first native speaker of Hebrew in the modern era. At his father's insistence, Itamar was not ...
In his youth, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda studied in a Yeshiva where he was introduced to the Hebrew language. [4] He was told by his Lithuanian friends that the Jews are not a nation and cannot be a nation because they don't speak in one distinct language, [5] That claim inspired his unique perspective that two things will fully unite the Jews into one nation: The land of Israel and the Hebrew ...
The Academy replaced the Hebrew Language Committee (Vaʻad ha-lashon ha-ʻIvrit) established in 1890 by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, who was its first president. As Hebrew became the spoken language in Palestine and was adopted by the educational system, the Hebrew Language Committee published bulletins and dictionaries. It coined thousands of words ...
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of dozens of senators on Tuesday attended a closed-door viewing on Capitol Hill of video from the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel.. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y ...
Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman, birth name of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858–1922), a Jewish Litvak lexicographer, the driving spirit behind the revival of the Hebrew language in the modern era. Elio Perlman, the protagonist of André Aciman's novel Call Me by Your Name; Elliot Perlman (born 1964), author and barrister