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    Eliezer BenYehuda (born Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman; 7 January 1858 – 16 December 1922) was a Russian-Jewish linguist, lexicographer, and journalist. He is...
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    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. Eliezer is credited...
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    Judaism to a spoken and written language used for daily life in Israel. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda is often regarded as the "reviver of the Hebrew language" having been...
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    The Ben-Yehuda Dictionary is a historical Hebrew dictionary. The first volume was published in 1908 by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, while the last was published...
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  • this surname include: Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, (1858–1922), Jewish Litvak lexicographer of Hebrew and newspaper editor Hemda Ben-Yehuda (1873–1951), Jewish journalist...
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    The creation of a modern version of the ancient language was led by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. Modern Hebrew (Ivrit) became the main language of the Yishuv in Palestine...
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    Road. The street is named after the founder of Modern Hebrew, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. Ben Yehuda was already one of Jerusalem's main streets long before the...
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    Beit Ben-Yehuda is a historical home built in Arnona-Talpiot Neighborhood in Jerusalem for Eliezer Ben Yehuda, known as "the reviver of the Hebrew language"...
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    BenYehuda (Hebrew: חֶמְדָּה בֵּן־יְהוּדָה) (April 7, 1873 – August 25, 1951) was a Jewish journalist and author, and the second wife of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda...
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  • Dola BenYehuda Wittmann (12 July 1902 – 18 November 2004) was the daughter of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, who was the driving spirit behind the revival of the...
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    spoken language. By the late 19th century, Russian-Jewish linguist Eliezer Ben-Yehuda had begun a popular movement to revive Hebrew as a living language...
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    Hebrew-language newspaper published in Jerusalem from 1884 to 1914 by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, a pioneer of the revival of Hebrew as a spoken tongue. The first...
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  • philosopher of law Deb Perelman, creator of the Smitten Kitchen blog Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (born Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman) (1858-1922), Russian Jewish lexicographer...
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  • (1512–1585), Talmudist Eliezer ben Isaac ha-Gadol, 11th-century German rabbi Eliezer ben Nathan (1090–1170), Rishon Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858–1922), Hebrew...
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    exam. Eliezer Ben Yehuda was hired to teach Hebrew to the students, who hailed from various countries and had no common language. His wife, Hemda Ben-Yehuda...
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    founder of Modern Hebrew, the Litvak lexicographer and newspaper editor Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. 32°05′03″N 34°46′20″E / 32.0843°N 34.7721°E / 32.0843; 34.7721...
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  • 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...
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  • verb, 'he sympathized' אהד‎ is unrelated to the Biblical name Ehud. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda coined this verb, deriving it from the Arabic cognate hawadah, 'he...
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    Judah ha-Nasi (redirect from Yehuda hanasi)
    Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi to Beit She’arim[.]" Among Judah's contemporaries in the early years of his activity were Eleazar ben Simeon, Ishmael ben Jose, Jose...
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  • addressed to someone else. Born in Metz in 960, Gershom was a student of Yehuda HaKohen ben Meir (Sir Léontin), who was one of the greatest authorities of his...
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    129. ISSN 0276-1114. JSTOR 1396185. Mandel, George (2005). "Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer [Eliezer Yizhak Perelman] (1858–1922)". Encyclopedia of modern Jewish...
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    Zion and teacher in Rishon Le-Zion. He was a friend and colleague of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. Yudilovitz settled in Palestine in 1882 with the Bilu'im during the...
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    century. It was introduced into Modern Hebrew by Hemda Ben-Yehuda, whose husband Eliezer Ben Yehuda was the leading force behind the revival of the Hebrew...
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    Semitic root SBB ("to turn") and was invented by Itamar Ben-Avi (the son of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda) when he was five years old. Hayyim Nahman Bialik used a...
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    Yated Ne'eman (Degel HaTorah). HaZvi (1884–1914, Hebrew) published by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda Ha'or (1908–?, Hebrew), name change of HaZvi, banned by the Ottoman...
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  • executive Anita Perlman, see B'nai B'rith Girls Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman, birth name of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, a Jewish Litvak lexicographer, the driving spirit...
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    Rav Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (also called Leizer Yudel Finkel) is a Haredi Jewish rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, which is considered...
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  • as a letter with a double (sometimes triple) pronunciation. When Eliezer ben Yehuda drafted his Standard Hebrew language, he based it on Sephardi Hebrew...
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    founder of the Hadassah organization; the poet Else Lasker-Schüler, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the father of Modern Hebrew, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, the Nobel Laureate...
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    Nadezhda Abramova Olga Abramova Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel Eliezer Ben-Yehuda Catherine Breshkovsky Stanislau Bulak-Balachovitch Faddei Bulgarin...
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