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Eliezer Ben-Yehuda

B'nai Brith, UNESCO to hold Hebrew symposium in Paris

The conference, entitled "Hebrew as a Treasure of Human Heritage," will mark a century since the passing of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, who is widely regarded as the father of modern Hebrew.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the founder of modern Hebrew, in his home in Jerusalem, sometime between 1918-1923.
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and his wife, Hemda, working on the Hebrew dictionary, 1912, Ya’ackov Ben-Dov (id.lib.harvard.edu).

Israel's greatest achievement: Reviving the Hebrew language

Hebrew, to be sure, had never died. But the secular Hebrew in which the ancient Jews farmed, traded, governed and wrote poems had been reduced to a language of liturgy, ritual and scholarship.

|ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
The Tower of Babel

We speak different languages but can we unite? - opinion

Can there be such a reality, in which everyone thinks the same thing, in which society is united?

|ByYOAV ENDE
Students at Hebrew University

The English University of Jerusalem?

The “War of Languages” was reignited after reports surfaced thatHebrew University of Jerusalem intends to mandate English as the language of instruction for its graduate and doctoral degrees.

|ByEYTAN MEIR