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145 years ago today in Paris, proto-Zionist Eliezer Ben Yehuda and two friends had what is thought to be the first conversation in modern Hebrew
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Arthur Besse lemmy.ml cypherpunks@lemmy.ml
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https://web.archive.org/web/20111018150223/https://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=241523 :

On October 13, 1881, a short time before moving to Palestine, Eliezer Ben Yehuda held what is thought to be the first modern conversation in Hebrew with two friends at a Paris café. That moment became the impetus for Ben Yehuda’s at times tortuous revival of the language, which for centuries had been relegated solely to the written word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Zionism

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