Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda was a Jewish lexicographer and newspaper editor. He was the driving spirit behind the revival of the Hebrew language in the modern era.
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda was born Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman (Yiddish אליעזר יצחק פערלמאן), in Luzhki (Belarusian

Belarusian language

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 Лужкі (Łužki), Polish

Polish language

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 Łużki), Vilna Governorate

Vilna Governorate

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 of the Russian Empire

Russian Empire

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 (now Vitsebsk Voblast

Vitsebsk Voblast

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, Belarus

Belarus

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). He attended cheder

Cheder

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 where he studied Hebrew and the Bible from the age of three, as was customary among the Jews of Eastern Europe.