The Resurrection of the Jewish Language

Before the zionist migrations to palestine ever began, there had been a small religious community of jews from all over the world who lived in jerusalem. They would use scraps of rudimentary hebrew to try to communicate with each other - but it was more of a really simple pigeon language than a functional language on its own. eleazar ben juhuta decided that any sustainable revival of jewish culture and identity had to include a resurrection of the jewish language,. He devoted his to this project. There were many people in the early days who thought it would just be easier to teach everyone russian or german or yiddish. But, but he knew that they were