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a wagon under cases of live
chickens.
More than the story of this
one family's flight to freedom,
it is also the story of every-
one's grandparents or great-
grandparents who left Czarist
Russia illegally during those
troubled times.
The relationship of dutiful
love between the two genera-
tions grows into one of
warmth, understanding and a
link in the chain of life.
Drucker, Malka.
Eliezer Ben-Yehudah:
The Father of Modern
Hebrew.
Illustrated with
photographs.
New York: Lodestar
Books: E. P. Dutton, 1987.
Jewish Biography Series.
For ages 10-14.
Some said he was crazy.
Some said he was foolish.
Everyone said it couldn't be
done, but Eliezer Perelman
had a dream to fulfill. Two
thousand years ago, Hebrew
had been a vibrant living
language used in everyday
life. By 1878, it had become
the language of prayer and
study only. Mr. Perelman's
dream was to revive the an-
cient Hebrew language and
make it once again a living
Could the peddler
really have been
Elijah the Prophet?
language, the common unify-
ing language of the people —
all Jewish people.
To fulfill this dream, he
settled in Palestine, changing
his name to Eliezer Ben-
Yehudah (Son of Judeah),
vowing to speak only Hebrew.
Palestine of 1881 was not the
land of milk and honey of the
Torah, but a barren land of
swamps, desert and disease.
The 25,000 Jews who lived
there spoke Ladino, Arabic,
Yiddish, a little Hebrew and
many European languages.
Meeting opposition from
both Orthodox Jews, who
thought the sacred language
should be used only for holy
writing, and more secular,
scientific Jews, who thought
an ancient language could
not express modern thoughts
and inventions, Ben-Yehudah
persevered in his dream.
Known as the father of
modern Hebrew, he wrote the
first five volumes of the
Hebrew dictionary which was
completed nine volumes later
by two of his children in 1959.
Today, Hebrew, the ancient
language of our forefathers is
also a modern up-to-date
language spoken by over
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