Crazy fact: The first Hebrew dictionary wasn’t printed until the 20th century. Hebrew was basically a dead language until Zionists dug it up
https://x.com/5149jamesli/status/1912138349013536907
Crazy fact: The first Hebrew dictionary wasn’t printed until the 20th century.
Hebrew was basically a dead language until Zionists dug it up and turned it into a weapon of nation-building — a “linguistic coup” to make a modern colonial project feel ancient and inevitable.
https://x.com/5149jamesli/status/1912138349013536907
Although Hebrew continued to be used for Jewish liturgy, poetry and literature, and written correspondence,[14] it became extinct as a spoken language.
By the late 19th century, Russian-Jewish linguist Eliezer Ben-Yehuda had begun a popular movement to revive Hebrew as an everyday language, Modern Hebrew - Wikipedia
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