Eliezer ben Yehuda

Linguist and writer

Eliezer ben Yehuda was a Jewish linguist, writer, and lexicographer. He is best known for his work on the Hebrew language, which he helped to standardize and modernize. Ben Yehuda was born in 1858 in Odessa, Ukraine, and died in 1922 in Jerusalem. He was a prolific writer and published several books on Hebrew language and literature. Ben Yehuda was also a strong advocate for the establishment of a Hebrew language aca...