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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 Hebre…
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culture · Jewish linguist and journalist (1858–1922) · lexicographer · linguist · journalist · grammarian · newspaper editor · also Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer Ben Yehouda, Eliʿezer Ben-Yehudah, Eliezer Ben-Jehudah, E. Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer Ben Judah
Born 7 January 1858 · Died 16 December 1922 · Q181728
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“In order to supplement the deficiencies of the Hebrew language, the Committee coins words according to the rules of grammar and linguistic analogy from Semitic roots: Aramaic and especially from Arabic roots.”
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Belarus falls (literally) all over native son Eliezer Ben Yehuda
“What the Pollard Case Means to Jews”
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“Creed of An American Zionist”
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Died 1922-12-16.
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Its name changed to HaOr, and it was shut down by the Ottoman government during World War I due its support for a homeland for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel/Palestine
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He, along with many members of the Second Aliyah, supported Theodor Herzl's Uganda Scheme proposal as a temporary refuge
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Of tuberculosis, leaving him with five small children
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Ben-Yehuda joined the First Aliyah and immigrated to the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, then ruled by the Ottoman Empire, and settled in Jerusalem
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Ben-Yehuda went to Paris for four years
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Born 1858-01-07.
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