It was in Daugavpils in Latvia that Ben Yehuda first read a Hebrew-language magazine ... for some years was editor-in-chief of the local newspaper “Hahavatzelet”, owned by Israel Dov, and ...

While reading the Hebrew language newspaper HaShahar ... Ben-Yehuda raised his son, Ben-Zion Ben-Yehuda (the first name meaning "son of Zion") speaking entirely in Hebrew. He refused to let ...

At heart a writer and journalist rather than a teacher, Ben-Yehuda founded his first newspaper on October 24, 1884. It was called “HaZvi” (The Gazelle). Due to a virtually non-existent budget ...

It has been over a century since yeshiva graduate and journalist Eliezer Ben-Yehuda revived Hebrew ... of the Second Jewish Commonwealth. The first Modern Hebrew word that he created was ...

He and his first wife, Devora ... he was able to continue to print and disseminate his newspaper. Ben Yehuda, though a secular Jew, had believed that the major obstacle to his goal of unifying ...

The town is far removed from the intensity of Jerusalem, and Oz himself at first seemed detached and ... and he was effusive about Eliezer Ben Yehuda, the founder of modern Hebrew.