“Your language is not dead until you can pass it on to someone”: Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, a person who revived Hebrew

On January 7, 1858, in Luzhki Village near Vilnius (at that time under the occupation of Russian Empire), Eliezer Ben-Yehuda was born, who is called the father of the modern Hebrew. He devoted his whole life to the revival of Hebrew, its development and enrichment: Ben-Yehuda created one of the first weeklies in Hebrew, he founded the Hebrew Language Committee, which later became the Hebrew Language Academy, and he began publishing the first complete dictionary of Hebrew.
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