Russian hebrew linguist, grammarian, journalist, lexicographer, newspaper editor and Zionist activist
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda was a Russian-born Hebrew linguist, grammarian, and journalist who worked to revive and modernize the Hebrew language during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is significant because he played a central role in making Hebrew a living, spoken language again through his lexicographic work, newspaper editing, and Zionist activism, which helped establish Hebrew as the language of a modern Jewish nation.
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Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda (born Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman; 7 January 1858 – 16 December 1922) was a Russian–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.
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