Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda was principally responsible for the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language from its previous state as a liturgical language. Born Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman in Luzhki (Лужки), a shtetl which now lies in northern Belarus and was a part of the Vilnius Guberniya of Imperial Russia at the time. He began to study Hebrew and the Torah at age three, like many young Jewish boys in Eastern Europe. Wikipedia
Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer (1858-1922) Eliezer Ben-Yehuda was one of the first Zionists and is credited with the revival of Hebrew as a modern tongue spoken by a renascent Jewish nation. www.jafi.org.il/education/100/PEOPLE/BIOS/beliezer.html
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Eliezer Ben-Yehuda is credited with the revival of Hebrew as a modern tongue spoken by the Jewish nation. He was born Eliezer Yitzhak Perelman , in the Lithuanian village of Luzhky in 1858. He began learning Hebrew from a very tender age as part of a th www.bicom.org.uk/background/biographies/prominent-figures...
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858- December 16, 1922) is known as the father of modern Hebrew. He was one of the earliest supporters of Zionism, and it due primarily to his initiative that Hebrew was revived as a modern spoken language. Ben-Yehuda was born in Lu www.zionism-israel.com/bio/E_Ben_Yehuda_biography.htm
That is what it was like in the home of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda . Actually, that was not even his real name. He was born in Russia in 1858 with the name Eliezer Perelman . Eliezer wanted very much to learn Torah but his family was terribly poor. They sent www.fuchsmizrachi.org/eliezer_ben.htm