Reuben Alcalay (; 1907 in
Jerusalem
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– 1976 in Jerusalem) was an Israeli lexicographer and author of the most comprehensive English-Hebrew-English dictionary, which expanded the dictionaries of
Ben-Yehuda
Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda (born Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman; 7 January 1858 – 16 December 1922) was a Russian–Jewish linguist, lexicographer, and journalist who immigrated to Jerusalem in 1881, when the Ottoman Empire ruled it. He is renowned as the ...
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Ben-Yehuda Dictionary
The Ben-Yehuda Dictionary is a historical Hebrew dictionary. The first volume was published in 1908 by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, while the last was published long after his death, in 1958 by his wife and his son. An important feature of the dictionary w ...
),
Avraham Even-Shoshan
Avraham Even-Shoshan ( né Rozenshteyn; 25 December 1906 – 8 August 1984) was a Belarusian-born Israeli Hebrew linguist and lexicographer, compiler of the Even-Shoshan dictionary, one of the foremost dictionaries of the Hebrew language.
Biogra ...
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Even-Shoshan Dictionary
The Hebrew dictionary by Avraham Even-Shoshan, commonly known as the ''Even-Shoshan Dictionary'', was first published (1948–1952) as " (''milon ḥadash'', ''A New Dictionary''), later (1966–1970) as (''hamilon heḥadash'', ''The New Dictio ...
),
Judah Even Shemuel (Kaufmann), Meir Medan,
Harry Torczyner (
Tur-Sinai), and
Jacob Knaani.
His ''Complete English-Hebrew Dictionary'' (1961, 2,150 pages) aimed to contain all the modern Hebrew terms decided upon by the
Hebrew Language Academy, and thousands of other new coinages from the Hebrew press literature. The first edition received a three-page review in the magazine of the American Jewish Congress in 1964.
[Judaism: Volume 13; Volume 13 American Jewish Congress - 1964] The companion volume, ''Complete Hebrew-English Dictionary,'' (מילון אנגלי עברי שלם) was published in 1965.
The dictionary contains entries and translations without pronunciation or examples. It is numbered by column rather than page.
References
Israeli lexicographers
1907 births
1976 deaths
20th-century lexicographers
Sephardi Jews in Mandatory Palestine
Burials at Har HaMenuchot
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