Eliezer Ben-Yehuda

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda is the revivor of the Hebrew language. He has created new words, and have wrote many hebrew articles and essays in many places, including his own newspaper HaTzvi. Along with Ahad Ha‘am, Ben-Yehuda was an advocate of Cultural Zionism.

Quotes

• To conquer the land of our forefathers before us, not by force, nor by the power of weapons and war, but through a spirit of loyalty to the ruler of the land and by the power of money; and he calls it by the name: ‘The Society for the Redeemers of the Land.’
  • In “Revival of Israel”
• If we wish that the name Israel be not extinguished, then we are in duty bound to create something which may serve as a center for our entire people, like the heart in an organism, from which the blood will stream into all the arteries of the national body and fill it with life.
  • In “A Burning Question”
• One people, one land, one language!
  • Quoted in Hemda Ben Yehuda, New Palestine, Dec. 1950.
• The Hebrew language can live only if we revive the nation and return to the fatherland.
  • Quoted in Unified Jewish Religious Education Curriculum
• The Hebrew language will go from the synagogue to the house of study, and from the house of study to the school, and from the school it will come into the home and... become a living language.
  • In HaTzvi.