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Eliezer Ben-Yehuda | Eliezer Ben-Yehuda was the pioneer of the revival of the Hebrew language as a living spoken language, Journalist and linguistic researcher. He was one of the founders of the “Hebrew Language Committee,” which years later became the “Academy of the Hebrew Language.” Ben-Yehuda was born in the Vilna region in 1858 and went to Paris to study medicine. Influenced by the national movement in Europe, he published his article “[https://benyehuda.org/read/257 A Noble Question]”<ref group="Note">The article was submitted with the title “A burning question” but that was deemed too provocative, so the title was changed to “A noble question.”</ref> in Peretz Smolenskin’s newspaper ''HaShaḥar''. In the article he expressed his nationalist views—the return to Zion and the revival of the Hebrew language as a spoken language. In 1881 he immigrated to [[Eretz Israel]]. He became close to the circles of the educated and participated in various newspapers. Around 1884 he founded his own newspapers ''Mevasseret Zion'' and ''Hatzvi''. He fought with stubborn zeal for the leadership of the speech. He has created new words, and have wrote many Hebrew articles and essays in many places, including his own newspaper ''HaTzvi''. Along with [[Ahad Ha'am|Aḥad Ha‘am]], Eliezer Ben-Yehuda was an advocate of Cultural Zionism. | ||
<small>See “[https://zionism-israel.com/bio/E_Ben_Yehuda_biography.htm Eliezer Ben-Yehuda]” in Zionism-Israel.com for a more comprehensive article.</small> | |||
==Quotes== | ==Quotes== | ||
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**Quoted in [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Unified_Jewish_Religious_Education_Curri/1X5QbltiT1sC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22We+shall+not+overcome+our+opponents+with+reason,+but+with+sentiment.%22&pg=PA169&printsec=frontcover ''Unified Jewish Religious Education Curriculum''] | **Quoted in [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Unified_Jewish_Religious_Education_Curri/1X5QbltiT1sC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22We+shall+not+overcome+our+opponents+with+reason,+but+with+sentiment.%22&pg=PA169&printsec=frontcover ''Unified Jewish Religious Education Curriculum''] | ||
*The Hebrew language will go from the synagogue to the house of study, and from the house of study to the school, and from the school it will come into the home and... become a living language. | *The Hebrew language will go from the synagogue to the house of study, and from the house of study to the school, and from the school it will come into the home and... become a living language. | ||
**In ''HaTzvi''.<ref>https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Revival_of_Classical_Tongue/eJnLkfou_BkC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22The+Hebrew+language+will+go+from+the+synagogue+to+the%22&pg=PA49&printsec=frontcover</ref> | **In ''HaTzvi''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fellman |first=Jack |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Revival_of_Classical_Tongue/eJnLkfou_BkC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22The+Hebrew+language+will+go+from+the+synagogue+to+the%22&pg=PA49&printsec=frontcover |title=The Revival of Classical Tongue: Eliezer Ben Yehuda and the Modern Hebrew Language |date=2011-07-19 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-087910-0 |language=en}}</ref> | ||
*The idea of reviving the Hebrew language on the lips of the people,.. is—by the help of God—steadily advancing and taking root in our land. From day to day this idea clothes itself with more flesh and sinew, ceasing to be a mere spiritual notion and beginning to become something tangible and real. | |||
**In ''HaTzvi'', 4 may 1888, “[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/?a=d&d=hzv18880504-01.2.4 The Horn For the House of Israel: The Revival of Our Language]” | |||
*If there is in Jerusalem a language of the land for the Jews—that is, a language shared by all—it is only the Hebrew tongue... It alone unites all the members of the different communities. Only through its power can one heart and one spirit be given to all. | |||
**In ''HaTzvi'', 26 October 1888, “[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/?a=d&d=hzv18881026-01.2.2 The Horn for the House of Israel: Hebrew Language, Studies Language]” | |||
*As long as our people dwelling in the Holy Land speak foreign tongues—each man the language of the land from which he came: Spanish, Ashkenazic, Norse, Arabic, Greek, and so on—there is no hope that we shall here become one people, of one heart and one counsel. | |||
*We are a rabble, we are the generation of Babel, who cannot understand one another’s speech; and thus our hearts have grown distant from each other. | |||
*Only when the day comes that we all speak one language — then we shall be one people. | |||
**In ''HaTzvi'', 10 February 1888, “[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/?a=d&d=hzv18880210-01.2.2 The Chronicles of the Week]” | |||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
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==In other Websites== | |||
*[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ben-yehuda-eliezer Jewish Library] | |||
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