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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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    marketplaces in Jerusalem since at least the early 19th century. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858–1922) (אליעזר בן יהודה‎) is often regarded as the "reviver of...
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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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  • 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 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • (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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    20, 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2023. Mandel, George (2005). "Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer [Eliezer Yizhak Perelman] (1858–1922)". Encyclopedia of modern Jewish...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Judah Halevi (redirect from Yehuda Halevy)
    Judah Halevi (also Yehuda Halevi or ha-Levi; Hebrew: יהודה הלוי and Judah ben Shmuel Halevi יהודה בן שמואל הלוי‎‎; Arabic: يهوذا اللاوي, romanized: Yahūḏa...
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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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    Ben Yehuda Street is a street in Tel Aviv, Israel. The street runs from an intersection with Allenby Street, northwards intersecting where it runs roughly...
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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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  • 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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  • Yeshiva Ben-Zion Ben-Yehuda, birth name of Itamar Ben-Avi (1882–1943), first native speaker of Modern Hebrew as the son of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda; journalist...
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    the Jewish Diaspora. The most prominent follower of this idea was Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, a linguist intent on reviving Hebrew as a spoken language among Jews...
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    (Hebrew for "New Dictionary"). Ben-Yehuda Dictionary , the first modern Hebrew dictionary, compiled by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, whose first volumes were published...
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    Haman on stones and to knock them until the name is blotted out. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda initially suggested the word Hebrew: מנענע, 'shaker', for the Purim...
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  • Yehuda ben Meir, also known as Yehudah Leontin, was a German rabbi and Talmudic scholar of the late tenth and early eleventh century CE, who was from Mainz...
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