Introduction

In 1881 Eliezer Beniuda stepped off a boat in the port city of Jaffa and said, from now on we are only speaking Hebrew. The idea of connecting this ancient language to modernity had been building for over a hundred years at this point. It was Zionism that most effectively used Hebrew to revive the Jewish national spirit in Eretziusra el - the land of Israel. So Hebrew, that's today's topic.