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The Battalion of the Defenders of the Language ( Hebrew: גדוד מגיני השפה, romanized : G'dud meginei ha-safa) was a small but militant body established by Jewish students at the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium in Tel Aviv in the 1920s to urge Jews in then Mandatory Palestine to use only the Hebrew language. [1]
A visionary by the name of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda believed that the Jews needed both a land and language of their own in order to survive. He dedicated his life (and family) toward the cause of reviving the ancient Hebrew language - a feat never accomplished before or since. Ben-Yehuda was instrumental in ensuring that Hebrew would live and thrive ...
2 The pre-revival state of Hebrew In an examination of the Hebrew revival we should start with a look at the prior state of Hebrew. One very important factor in Hebrew’s being a reviveable language is that while it was dead it was not at all gone. In status it was mostly a religious language, but it had other spheres of use.
The revival of the Hebrew language is generally considered to be one of the outstanding sociolinguistic phenomena of modern times. Several serious. scholars have even referred to it in terms of the miraculous. 1 It would seem, then, that a clarification of the term is in order. In this paper we will use.
For the Hebrew language revival, one of the truly outstanding socio-linguistic events of modern times, this characterization is eminently true of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, was born Eliezer Yitzhak Perelman, in the Lithuanian village of Luzhky on January 7, 1858. Like virtually all Jewish children of that time and place he began ...
War of the Languages. "The Storm of Posters: The Battle for the Hebrew Language". The war of the languages ( Hebrew: מלחמת השפות; Milhemet HaSafot) was a heated debate in the land of Israel over the language of instruction in the country's new Jewish schools. This "language war" was a cornerstone event in the history of the revival of ...
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858-1922) was a key figure in the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language. The State of Israel was founded in 1948 with the wish to grant a homeland to the entire Jewish Diaspora (those Jews living outside Israel). The declaration of independence calls all Jews to come and build the new country within which all citizens will ...
