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Product details
- ISBN 9780367007577
- Weight: 410g
- Dimensions: 127 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 18 Apr 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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
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.
