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unusual facts about Modern Hebrew


Dola Ben-Yehuda Wittmann

Dola survived her older brother by 60 years well into a millennium where Modern Hebrew had become the native language of three million people (out seven million speakers as a whole), many of whom are non-Jews.



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Avidov Lipsker

He has published dozens of articles and encyclopedic entries (both in Hebrew and English) about Modern Hebrew prose and poetry, as well as studies in the history of the ancient Hebrew narrative.

Hebrew Gospel

Bible translations into Hebrew, including a translation of the Gospels into Modern Hebrew; e.g. ספר הבריתות, published by The Bible Society in Israel, 1991, the New Testament text of which is a revision of the 1976 United Bible Societies translation.

Malka Drucker

Eliezer Ben Yehuda: Father of Modern Hebrew won the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Janusz Korczak Literary Competition and her biography of Frida Kahlo was chosen as an American Booksellers Association "Pick of the Lists."

Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

The Hebrew writers of the Haskalah, the Jewish expression of the Enlightenment, greatly admired Luzatto's secular writings and deemed him the founder of modern Hebrew literature.