Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda | |
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אֱלִיעֶזֶר בֶּן־יְהוּדָה | |
| Born | Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman 7 January 1858 Luzhki, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire (now Belarus) |
| Died | 16 December 1922 (aged 64) Jerusalem, British Mandate for Palestine |
| Resting place | Mount of Olives, Jerusalem 31°46′42″N 35°14′38″E / 31.77833°N 35.24389°E |
| Alma mater | Sorbonne University |
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| Organization | HaZvi |
| Known for | Reviving the Hebrew language |
| Movement | Zionism |
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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 the Land of Israel. Ben-Yehuda was the primary driving force behind the revival of the Hebrew language.