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עִבְרִית חֲדָשָׁה Modern Hebrew
עִבְרִית חֲדָשָׁה Modern Hebrew
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Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858–1922)
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858–1922)
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Ulpan (Hebrew in Hebrew) + Shoresh Matrix
Ulpan (Hebrew in Hebrew) + Shoresh Matrix
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Audio, Canvas Studio & Verb Molds
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Eliezer Ben-Yehuda: The Father of Modern Hebrew
Explore the exhaustive biography of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858–1922), from his childhood in Luzhki and the Paris medical epiphany to his fanatical monolingual Hebrew household in 1881 Jerusalem, the war against the Ultra-Orthodox rabbinate, coining the modern dictionary, and the 1913 War of the Languages.