The Revival of a Language: Lecture and Brunch by Gil Hovav
Sunday, September 14, 2025 • 21 Elul 5785
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Edlavitch DCJCC(1529 16th Street NW)
Please join us for an exciting in-person lecture and Brunch about the revival of Hebrew as a modern language. The speaker is Gil Hovav, great-grandson of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. Ben-Yehuda was the driving force behind the incredible rebirth of a "dead" language.
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Edlavitch DCJCC(1529 16th Street NW)
Please join us for an exciting in-person lecture and Brunch about the revival of Hebrew as a modern language. The speaker is Gil Hovav, great-grandson of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. Ben-Yehuda was the driving force behind the incredible rebirth of a "dead" language.
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Gil Hovav is an Israeli TV presenter, culinary journalist, restaurant critic, and author. The Jewish Chronicle described him as "Israel's most famous television chef and cookery-book writer," reveals the real story of the revival of the Hebrew language, from a personal point of view. Hebrew was practically dead for 2000 years. The man who revived it almost single-handedly was Eliezer Ben Yehuda, one of the founding fathers of Zionism. Gil Hovav, his great grandson, tells the story of this unprecedented miracle through the little secrets that were kept by his family for more than a hundred years. Gil will also address the topic of how the language is evolving to include the non-binary.
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