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Google News: Perlasca Forest: Remembering the Righteous of the Nations
[Jerusalem Post] - Shaya Ben Yehuda, Yad Vashem Director of International Relations, related that before his death, Perlasca specifically requested that his having been declared one of the Righteous of the Nations be inscribed in Hebrew on his gravestone.
Reviving Hebrew
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[Huffington Post (blog)] - Modern lore has it that Eliezer Ben Yehuda, the founder of modern Hebrew, didn't allow his son to be exposed to any other languages. Today, that sounds unduly doctrinaire; we now know that multilingualism -- not unilingualism -- is the key to language
Guardian: Et cetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction reviews
[The Guardian] - But field linguists can attempt to preserve endangered languages, and moribund ones can be revived, as with Cornish, Welsh and Hebrew, whose 19th-century champion Ben-Yehuda had the lovely motto: "Everything needs its lunatic.
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