A Dream Come True

by Eliezer Ben-yehuda

Overview

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858-1922), a Russian Jew, was the leader of the movement to revive the Hebrew language—the only attempt we know of that succeeded in restoring an archaic language to use in everyday speech. This memoir is an account of his life until 1882, a year after he settled in Jerusalem, it contains a description of his early life in the

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367007577
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/18/2019
Pages:	136
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

T. Muraoka is professor of Hebrew, Israelite antiquities, and Ugaritic at Leiden University, Holland. George Mandel is the David Hyman Fellow in Modern Jewish Studies at the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies and a research fellow of Green College, Oxford.

Table of Contents

Preface — Introduction — First Period — 1 — 2 — 3 — 4 — 5 — 6 — 7 — 8 — 9 — 10 — Second Period — 11 — 12 — 13 — Notes