Dola Ben-Yehuda Wittmann
Dola Ben‑Yehuda Wittmann (12 July 1902 – 18 November 2004) was the daughter of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda who was the driving spirit behind the revival of the Hebrew language in the modern era.
Biography
Dola and her siblings were among the first native speakers of Modern Hebrew. Her brother, Itamar Ben-Avi, was the first native speaker. In 1921, she married Max Wittmann, a German who became the first non-Jewish language activist in Palestine to found a Hebrew-only family with a native speaker of Hebrew.[1] At the time of her death, she was the world's oldest native speaker of Modern Hebrew. Both Dola and her husband are buried in the Alliance Church International Cemetery in the German Colony neighborhood of Jerusalem.[2]
References
- Orbaum, Sam (2000). "Daughter of the Mother Tongue." Not Page One column[1], republished in Eskimos of Jerusalem And Other Extraordinary Israelis; 116 vivid stories of memorable people and places. Jerusalem, 2001.
- Wittmann, Dola Ben-Yehuda (1991). Tracks 01, 03, 17, 19, 23, 63, 65, 68 of Tongue of Tongues: A documentary to mark the centenary of Spoken Hebrew (BBC Radio Three, November 9, 1989), edited by Lewis Glinert. Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive, Hanover, NH.[2]
- Zuckermann, Ghil‘ad (2009). "Hybridity versus Revivability: Multiple Causation, Forms and Patterns." Journal of Language Contact, Varia 2.40-67.[3]
Notes
- ^ See Orbaum's account."Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2011-12-07.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Orbaum, a columnist for the Jerusalem Post, had met the couple on numerous occasions. - ^ Jaskow, Rahel S. (2013-02-22). "Tourist Tip #171 / Alliance Church International Cemetery in Jerusalem". Haaretz. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
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