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	Eliezer Ben-Yehuda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (Hebrew אֱלִיעֶזֶרבֶּן־יְהוּדָה) (January 7, 1858-1922), was principally responsible for the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language, whereas it had previously been a liturgical language.
		He was born Eliezer Yitzhak Perelman in Luzhki (Лужки), a small town in Wilno Guberniya of Imperial Russia (now Northern Belarus).
		He joined the Jewish national movement and in 1881 emigrated to Eretz Israel, then a province of the Ottoman Empire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eliezer_Ben_Yehudah (355 words)

	Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858-1922)
		Eliezer Ben-Yehuda was one of the first Zionists and is credited with the revival of Hebrew as a modern tongue spoken by a renascent Jewish nation.
		Soon after his arrival in Jerusalem, Ben-Yehuda accepted a teaching position at the Alliance School which became the first school where some courses were taught in Hebrew, due to Eliezer's insistence that Hebrew be the official language of instruction for Jewish subjects.
		Eliezer was born in Luzki, Lithuania, in 1858 to Yehuda Leib and Feyga Perelman.
	www.jafi.org.il /education/100/PEOPLE/BIOS/beliezer.html (711 words)

	Judaism 101 - Eliezer ben-Yehuda - A Glossary of Basic Jewish Terms and Concepts - OU.ORG
		Eliezer ben-Yehuda was born Eliezer Yitzchak Perelman in the Lithuanian village of Luzhky on January 7, 1858.
		Judaism 101 - Eliezer ben-Yehuda - A Glossary of Basic Jewish Terms and Concepts - OU.ORG
		Like most Jewish boys of this period, he was given intensive training in Talmud, in the hope that he would become a rabbi.
	www.ou.org /about/judaism/rabbis/benyehuda.htm (368 words)

	Eliezer Ben Yehuda
		Eliezer Ben Yehuda, (1858-1922) was one of the most influential persons who impacted the character of the modern state of Israel.
		Ben Yehuda was born Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman in Luzhky, Lithuania to an Orthodox family.
		Eliezer Ben Yehuda and the Resurgence of the Hebrew Language
	www.jewishmag.com /43mag/ben-yehuda/ben-yehuda.htm (1765 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - ben Yehuda Eliezer
		ben Yehuda, Eliezer (1858-1922), Hebrew scholar, born in Lithuania, and originally named Eliezer Perelman.
		Ibn Gabirol, Solomon ben Yehuda (1021?-1058?), Spanish Jewish philosopher and poet, born in Málaga, and educated in Zaragoza.
		Born in the region of Podolia (now in Ukraine), he was named Israel ben Eliezer, but was called Baal Shem Tov, meaning “master of the Divine Name,”...
	encarta.msn.com /ben_Yehuda_Eliezer.html (123 words)

	Eliezer Ben Yehuda Biography / Biography of Eliezer Ben Yehuda Biography Biography
		Eliezer Ben Yehuda was born in the small town of Lushki in the province of Vilna, Lithuania, where he received a traditional Jewish education.
		The Hebrew lexicographer and editor Eliezer Ben Yehuda (1858-1922) is known as the father of spoken Hebrew.
		Ben Yehuda suffered from poor health; at times he endured hunger and persecution; yet at the end he witnessed the triumph of his ideal.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-eliezer-ben-yehuda (632 words)

	Waw
		When Eliezer Ben Yehuda, the father of modern Hebrew, was reviving Hebrew in the late 1800's and early 1900's, so that a nation could be established, he tried to avoid the Ashkenaz dialect as much as possible, preferring the Sephardic.
		Conversely, the Sephardic form resembled the sound pattern of Arabic more closely and Arabic was the sister language in the Semitic family which already existed in the locale." The Revival of a Classical Tongue, Eliezer Ben Yehuda and the Modern Hebrew Language, Jack Fellman, Pg.
		Ben Yehuda was greatly influenced by Arabic and Aramaic, in his modernizing Hebrew as a spoken language and not just liturgical.
	www.lebtahor.com /hebrew/waw.htm (1196 words)

	Pravapis.org - Belarusian language - Ben-Yehuda & Hebrew
		Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, was born Eliezer Yitzhak Perelman, in the Lithuanian (!) village of Luzhky** on January 7, 1858.
		Theirs became one contribution to the general liberation of the group, a medium of revolt and a symbol of unity." For the Hebrew language revival, one of the truly outstanding socio-linguistic events of modern times, this characterization is eminently true of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda.
		- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and the Revival of Hebrew (Belarusian translation of this article)
	www.pravapis.org /art_benyehuda2.asp (3278 words)

	ASF Israel
		Eliezer Ben Yehuda became renown throughout the world as the founder of the modern Hebrew language.
		In 1881, at the age of 23, Ben Yehuda immigrated to Palestine and settled in Jerusalem.
		Ben Yehuda’s “Complete Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Hebrew,” published by Langenscheidt in eighteen volumes between 1910 and 1959, was his academic life’s work.
	www.asf-ev.de /il/benyehuda.html (247 words)

	Project Ben-Yehuda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is named for Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the scholar largely responsible for reviving Hebrew as a modern language.
		Project Ben-Yehuda aims to make accessible the classics of Hebrew literature (poetry and prose at first, and then essays and other forms) to the reader of Hebrew.
		For that purpose, the literary works are converted to a format that is readable and searchable on the Internet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Project_Ben-Yehuda (115 words)

	History of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda Hebrew
		Eliezer Ben-Yehuda has been recognized by history -- Jewish and non-Jewish, for his role in the revival of the tongue of the prophets.
		Ben Yehuda’s unorthodox behavior, and the campaign which he waged in the columns of his periodicals against the halukkah system and its administrators, aroused the vehement opposition of the extreme Orthodox Jews.
		He was born Eliezer Yitzhak Perelman in Luzhky, Lithuania, to Feyga and Yehuda Lieb Perelman, a Habad Hasid, died when Eliezer was only five years old.
	levsoftware.com /history.htm (2022 words)

	Eliezer Ben
		When their son, Ben-Zion was born, Eliezer and Devora decided that he would speak only Hebrew.
		Ben Zion would be the “first Hebrew child.” He would be the first child in thousands of years to speak only Hebrew.
		Ben Zion was not allowed to play with other children because he might hear them speak other languages.
	www.fuchsmizrachi.org /eliezer_ben.htm (613 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Tongue of the Prophets, by Robert St. John
		THIS book is the first extended study of Eliezer Ben Yehuda and the revival of Hebrew; and it is written, not as one might have expected by a professional Hebrew scholar, but by a novelist and...
		...Ben Yehuda himself was greatly influenced, for example, by a Jewish professor of oriental studies whose lectures he attended in Paris and who argued for the desirability and practicability of reviving Hebrew...
		...Ben Yehuda's second important ontribution was a philological one: he further expanded the vocabulary of Hebrew and helped make it adequate for all modem needs...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V14I1P103-1.htm (929 words)

	Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
		[http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/biography/ben_yehuda.html Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and the Revival of Hebrew]
		Eliezer Yitzhak Perelman, January 7, 1858-1922), was principally responsible for the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language, whereas it had previously been a ceremonial language.
		After being an ardent revolutionary in Imperial Russia, he joined the Jewish national movement and emigrated to Palestine in 1881.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/eliezer_ben_yehuda (265 words)

	Moshe Nahir - Micro-corpus codification in the Hebrew Revival
		Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, mentioned earlier, was the most prominent and prolific codifier of the new Hebrew lexicon.
		The best known and probably one of the greatest contributors to the solution of this problem was Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1857-1922), who for many years was considered the "father" of the revival movement, until recently it has been realized that he had a significant impact on the language, but that was limited to its corpus.
		Itamar Ben-Avi, Ben-Yehuda's oldest son (Ben-Avi, "son of my father", may also be read, since he spells Avi as an acronym, as "son of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda"), was a journalist and a writer like his father, and he too was often faced in his writing with concepts and objects for which Hebrew words did not exist.
	www.uoc.edu /humfil/articles/eng/nahir0303/nahir0303.html (3496 words)

	AllRefer.com - Eliezer Ben Yehudah (Scholars, Antiquarians, And Orientalists, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Eliezer Ben Yehudah[elie´zur ben yehOO´da] Pronunciation Key, 1858–1922, Jewish scholar and leader, b.
		Eliezer Ben Yehudah, Scholars, Antiquarians, And Orientalists, Biographies
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	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BenYehud.html (256 words)

	The Hebrew Language : His People - Israel My Beloved
		Dola Ben-Yehuda Wittmann, who is now 91 years of age, and the only surviving child of Eliezer, loves to tell stories of her fanatical father.
		Eliezer's first wife, Deborah, gave him five of the children, and they truly were the first Hebrew speaking family since the early first millennium.
		When Ben Zion (Son of Zion), his first child was born, he forbade anyone to speak a word to him except in Hebrew.
	www.israelmybeloved.com /people/hebrew_language/ben_yehuda.htm (1001 words)

	MRT special items
		Eliezer Ben Yehuda believed that in order for the Jewish people to remain united we have to be able to communicate and pray in the same language.
		But all that changed through the efforts of one man. His name was Eliezer ben Yehuda, and we owe him thanks for making Hebrew a living language in the modern world.
		Although persecuted for his ideals and rejected by the very community he was trying to help, Ben Yehuda continued his work and published in 1910 the first volume of what later became the Complete Dictionary of Modern Hebrew.
	www.monmouth.com /~mrt/special/conf/2001ed.html (399 words)

	Gene Expression: The Rebirth of Hebrew
		Eliezer Ben Yehuda moved to the Land of Israel, then ruled by the Turks (the region was not yet called Palestine- that name would be be applied by the British only after World War I) and endeavored to bring about the rebirth of Hebrew as a spoken language.
		Usually they focus on the fact that the ancient Hebrew language lacked vocabulary for many aspects of modern life, and on the heroic story of Eliezer Ben Yehuda, who discovered and invented many of the missing terms, and raised the first Hebrew-speaking child in 2000 years.
		Ben Yehuda's work was certainly important for the revival of Hebrew, and he is justifiably celebrated, but similar things happened in Czech, Modern Greek, Finnish, and many other languages.
	www.gnxp.com /MT2/archives/004124.html (1577 words)

	HSB: Tongue of the Prophets
		Eliezer Ben Yehuda devoted his life to making Hebrew the language of Palestine and to furthering the establishment of a Jewish state there.
		This is the biography of a Jewish man named Eliezer Ben-Yehuda who made it his life's work to revive the Hebrew language and help return his people to their homeland of Israel.
		This book is a very fascinating biography of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the man who single handedly restored the languauge of Hebrew as a modern spoken language.
	www.ancient-hebrew.org /hebrewstudies/308.html (359 words)

	Biography
		Eliezer Ben Yehuda was born Eliezer Perlman in Luzhky, a small town in Lithuania, in 1858.
		Eliezer Ben Yehuda devoted a lifetime to reviving the Hebrew language.
		It was this book, and Rabbi Blucker that ignited the spark of Eliezer's interest in Hebrew as a language.
	home1.gte.net /~vze2mmg5/benyehuda/webdoc1.htm (362 words)

	ELIEZER BEN YEHUDA
		Ben Yehuda worked on reviving and expanding the language as he grew up.
		Itamar Ben Yehuda was raised from infancy to hear and speak only Hebrew.
		Eliezer, when will you lie down to sleep
	www.hebrewsongs.com /song-eliezerbenyehuda.htm (271 words)

	Jewish and Israel News from New York - The Jewish Week
		“Eliezer Ben-Yehuda had a vision to see that in order to make a nation you need not only pioneers but you also need everything that is going to put these people in a nation building mindset,” he explained in an interview.
		Although struggling through a Hebrew text about Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, publisher of the first modern Hebrew dictionary, may be nothing new for would-be Jewish educators, it can be both humiliating and inspirational for Tahl Ben Yehuda Saidel.
		Rabbi Eliezer Ben-Yehuda said that he has spent a great deal of his life explaining to people that his grandfather “was not some kind of lunatic who had this crazy idea that everyone needed to speak Hebrew.”
	www.thejewishweek.com /news/newscontent.php3?artid=10290 (450 words)

	JewishGates.org
		Eliezer Ben Yehuda focused on writing in a direct, succinct style and proceeded systematically to create the needed modern vocabulary.
		In the 1870's, believing deeply that Jews had to have their own country and their own language, he changed his name to Eliezer Ben Yehuda and began his life-long crusade to encourage Jews to speak Hebrew.
		Through his weekly magazine, his dictionary, and his enthusiasm, Eliezer Ben Yehuda succeeded in making Hebrew a modern spoken language, the national tongue of the Jewish people.
	www.jewishgates.com /file.asp?File_ID=381 (252 words)

	Yahrzeit for Eliezer Ben-Yehuda - December 21, 1922
		This was the dream of Eliezer Ben Yehuda and thus he dedicated himself to the rebirth of the nation of Israel in its own land, speaking its own language.
		In 1879, Eliezer changed his surname to Ben-Yehuda when he began his political activity with the publication of his first essay, “A Burning Question”, in the Hebrew publication – The Dawn.
		Eliezer wrote for the “Hakhavatzelet” (The Lily), a Hebrew literary publication.
	www.wzo.org.il /doingzionism/resources/view.asp?id=1051 (1066 words)

	Ben Yehuda Story
		The change in the use of Hebrew was the result of the efforts of one man: Eliezer Ben Yehuda.
		Ben Yehuda had an idea that was so powerful that it became the strongest force in his life.
		Hebrew was known only as a holy tongue language only used for prayer and study.
	www.jnf-canada.org /jnf/jerusalem/people/benstory/ben.htm (176 words)

	Eliezer Ben Yehudah
		Eliezer Ben-Yehudah was the renovator of the modern Hebrew language.
		Born in Lithuania, he went to Paris in 1878 to study medicine.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~szwetch/Stamps.of.Israel/17.html (71 words)

	RESTORING THE TWO HOUSES OF ISRAEL / Chapter 8
		Ben-Yehuda, was born Eliezer Yitzhak Perelman, in the Lithuanian village of Luzhky on January 7, 1858.
		It was the dream of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda that when the Jewish people returned to their ancient homeland that they would speak their ancient tongue of Hebrew.
		After over two thousand years of exile in the nations of the world, the birth and blossoming of the modern day nation of Israel is a major end-time prophetic event given to us by the G-d of Israel.
	www.hebroots.com /2housesch8.html (11079 words)

	vol03.317
		A gutten Shabbos Rafoel ben Yehuda Eliezer 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri Apr 15 00:36:13 1994 From: rar@slavic.umass.edu Subject: Petsha redux Devorah Sperling, who is not currently on the net, asks about the etymology of the gastronomic term _petsha/petshe/petsa_.
		The dish itself was the subject of various opinions pro and con some time ago on Mendele.
	shakti.trincoll.edu /~mendele/vol03/vol03.317 (738 words)

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