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  • 10 - Hebrew

  • Edited by Ilan Stavans, Amherst College, Massachusetts
  • Book:
    Conversations on Dictionaries
    Published online:
    25 December 2025
    Print publication:
    16 October 2025, pp 119-131

  • Summary

    This broad conversation between Ilan Stavans and Ruvik Rosenthal deals with 1,300 years of the Hebrew lexicography. The first dictionaries were the creation of medieval scholars. The approach changed when the lexicographic models were shaped by German linguists in the nineteenth century. The rise of nationalism and the emergence of Zionism as a response to millennia in the diaspora resulted in the revival of Hebrew as a modern language. It was fostered by a new approach orchestrated by Eliezer Ben Yehuda, who produced a dictionary made of seventeen volumes. Since then, the lexicographic work is rich, including various genres and answering to the needs of the fast expansion of the Hebrew vocabulary. The conversation also focuses on the experience of lexicographers as people and the nature of their work.