Eliezer Ben-Yehuda

✶January 7, 1858

†December 16, 1922

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Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda was a Jewish linguist, lexicographer, and journalist who immigrated to Jerusalem in 1881, when the Ottoman Empire ruled it. He is renowned as the lexicographer of the first Hebrew dictionary and also as the editor of Jerusalem-based HaZvi, one of the first Hebrew newspapers published in Mandatory Palestine. Ben-Yehuda was the primary driving force behind the revival of the Hebrew language.

Russian hebrew linguist, grammarian, journalist, lexicographer, newspaper editor and Zionist activist

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