A ceremony honoring Eliezer Ben Yehuda, the father of modern Hebrew, was held in the presence of Israeli dignitaries in a Belarussian town connected to his past. GLUBOKOE, Belarus (JTA ...
Yehuda, known as the father of modern Hebrew, worked to revive the language as a spoken one, he believed it would be a tool to rapidly foster a sense of unity among olim, Jewish immigrants to the land ...
He says that in 1897 when Eliezer Ben-Yehuda – best known for reviving the Hebrew language – arrived at the port of Jaffa, his reception was less than stellar. It wasn’t until he made his ...