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Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Belarusian lexicographer and journalist (died 1922)

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Eliezer Ben-Yehuda

Russian-Jewish linguist and journalist (1858–1922)

Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda was a Russian–Jewish linguist, lexicographer, and journalist who immigrated to Jerusalem in 1881, when the Ottoman Empire ruled it. He is renowned as the lexicographer of the first Hebrew dictionary and also as the editor of Jerusalem-based HaZvi, one of the…
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January 7

Day of the year

January 7 is the seventh day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 358 days remain until the end of the year.
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