Eliezer Ben Yehuda (7 January 1858 – 16 December 1922), a Russian–Jewish linguist, grammarian, and journalist, was renowned as the lexicographer of the first Hebrew dictionary. He was the main driving force behind the revival of the Hebrew language.
Famous Eliezer Ben-Yehuda Quotes
If we wish that the name Israel be not extinguished, then we are in duty bound to create something which may serve as a center for our entire people, like the heart in an organism, from which the blood will stream into all the arteries of the national body and fill it with life.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 languageTags:Eliezer Ben-Yehuda Quotes, Quotes
