Thursday, March 27th, 2008...2:06 am
Tohar Halashon “The Sanctity of the Language”
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While Israeli state schools are busy marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, who revived the modern Hebrew language, he is presented in the ultra-Orthodox pamphlet as”a wicked man who spent his life fighting with hatred against religion and wanted to uproot it totally.”
The pamphlet states: “If today the Sabbath is openly desecrated in Jerusalem, the holy city,and if the Torah is trampled on, for our sins, all over the holy land, this is to a large extent thanks to that very scoundrel who revived the Hebrew language.” The pamphlet devotesa great deal of space to the struggles of Ben-Yehuda with the ultra-Orthodox in the old Yishuv.
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