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dagesh: the flies fly around the tomatoes - that's how people in

Israel would mock the Galil dialect. Despite the weird Hebrew,

we were assimilated, we the "Olim Khadashim”' very quickly. I
told you: Ever since my childhood we saw our home here, in

Zion, in Jerusalem, and Russia was merely a temporary stop for

us”.

(Source: "Really?", Yemima Avidar-Tschernovich, Po'alim

Library, 1978)
The Hebrew of the beginning of the century might have sounded

a little funny, perhaps a little complicated, but it was finally

heard. And this is a miracle that happened to the Hebrew

language. A miracle no other language ever (accomplished) got.
All around the world there was no other "dead language" which

was successfully revived and put back into daily use.

Summary
After 1,700 years where no one spoke Hebrew, the Hebrew

came back to life.

This happened over a hundred years ago. Thanks to Eliezer Ben

Yehuda and others, who struggled for the reviving of the
Hebrew language. They renewed words that were missing in

Hebrew, published dictionaries and news papers, and especially

fought for the return of the Hebrew language to the daily use.

And so, 100 years ago, the Hebrew language embarked onto a
new era. The new language. The Hebrew we speak today, the

Hebrew of our days, is a part of this time.

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