Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
Russian hebrew linguist, grammarian, journalist, lexicographer, newspaper editor and Zionist activist
Episodes
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#5228: Why Israeli Road Signs Still Spell It "TiqwaIsrael's Academy of the Hebrew Language is finally standardizing how place names get written in English — but the Q on the signs has survived every... -
#5227: Who Decides What Hebrew Words Mean?Israel's Academy of the Hebrew Language can coin words the state must use — but it can't make anyone say them. Why 10 million speakers might be the... -
#5170: How Many Languages Sit in the Middle?Roughly 250 of the world's 7,000 languages have 100,000+ speakers. What's it like living in one of them? -
#5423: Underground Burial in Jerusalem: 24,000 Graves, 3 ElevatorsJerusalem ran out of ground for its dead — so it built a multi-storey car park where the parking spaces are graves.