Similar to The Story of Hebrew by Dr. Lewis Glinert, Dr. Keren Mock, research associate at Paris Sciences & Letters University, details the revival process of the Hebrew language in her book, Hebrew: From Sacred Language to Mother Tongue (Columbia University Press). The book, translated by Armine Kotin Mortimer, is based on Mock’s 2016 French edition.

Mock focuses on the development of Hebrew through the work of four key Jewish linguists: Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda, Aharon Appelfeld, Sami Michael, and Baruch........

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