Tongue of the Prophets

Plot

This is the biography of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda who made it his life's work to revive the HEbrew language and help return his people to their homeland of Israel. He perservered through a terminal illness, the death of his first wife, adn several of his children and constant financial trouble. He was misunderstood and criticized by many of his own people,yet he began amovement which brought many Jews home to Israel and helped untied them with a common language. I think one of the most amazing things about this story is that, in reviving the HEbrew language, Eliezer actually had to create many words himself. Because the language had been "dead" for so long, there were no words for things like airplane or concert. He had to hunt through the existing language to find words that he could combine or slightly modify to make new words. He also spent weeks andmonths hunting through old literature to find lost Hebrew words. Eliezer's passion and pserserverance were isnpiring.