Rebirth: The Story of Eliezer Ben-Yehudah and the Modern Hebrew LanguageJewish Publication Society of America, 1972 - 199 pages A biography of the turn-of-the-century Jewish scholar and his son who were instrumental in reviving Hebrew and establishing it as a living language in Palestine. |
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