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The Resurrection of Modern Hebrew
The revival of modern hebrew gives you a taste of how committed some of these folks were, and what was really going on, not just in their heads, but in their hearts. I mean, here we have a group of people who set to work reviving a dead language. Why? Because it was important to them, that's it. And they didn't just make it up either. They did their best to puzzle out the syntax and the structure of ancient spoken hebrew. This is the only example in history of a language dying out, gone to the point of having no one left in the world who spoke it, and then being reconstructed and revived. To day, millions of