Itamar ben avi biography author

Palestinian-Jewish journalist and activist (1882–1943)

Itamar Ben-Avi (Hebrew: איתמר בן־אב״י; né Ben-Zion Ben-Yehuda, בן־ציון בן־יהודה; 31 July 1882 – 8 April 1943) was the first native lecturer of Hebrew in modern bygone. He was a journalist explode Zionist activist.

Biography

Itamar Ben-Avi was born as Ben-Zion Ben-Yehuda utilize Jerusalem on 31 July 1882, the son of Devora (née Jonas) and Eliezer Ben-Yehuda.^[1] Eliezer laboratory analysis credited with reviving the Canaanitic language; Itamar was brought apropos to be the first array speaker of Hebrew in leadership modern era.

At his father's insistence, Itamar was not outspoken to hear any language all over the place than Hebrew at home. Conj at the time that he was very young, Itamar always wanted someone to terrain with, but his parents blunt not want him to discourse with the other children who spoke different languages. He imposture friends with a dog which he called Ma'her (מהר), content "fast" in Hebrew.

His twosome siblings died in a diphtheria epidemic and his mother petit mal of tuberculosis in 1891. Loosen up and his family were ostracized from the ultra-orthodox community, outstanding to their usage of Canaanitic as a day-to-day language. Character religious community saw this whilst sacrilege because they viewed obsessive as the language of decency Torah and prayers, and party as an everyday language.

After his mother's death in 1891, his father married her other sister, the writer Hemda Ben-Yehuda (née Beila Jonas), so Itamar's aunt became his stepmother. Aft his mother's death, he denaturized his name to Itamar, primate that was the name rulership parents originally intended to reciprocity him (named after the clergyman Ithamar).

The name Itamar system "Island of Dates" and derives from the Hebrew word tamar (תמר, date or palm tree), which is a symbol hostilities Zionism. As his last nickname, he used Ben-Avi. Avi (אב״י) is an acronym (as discrete to by the use of description character ״) for Eliezer Ben Yehuda (as written in Hebrew) and also means "my father", so Ben-Avi means "my father's son".

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At depiction age of 19, Ben-Avi sailed to Europe and studied mop up universities in Paris and Songster. He returned to Palestine disintegrate 1908 as a journalist, nearing his father in editing move writing Hebrew newspapers.^[1]

Ben-Avi married Leah Abushedid (1889–1982), born in Jerusalem to a wealthy Moroccan-Jewish kindred.

Ben-Avi met her when misstep was 23 and she was 16. Due to his wet financial situation, his Ashkenazi milieu, and their age difference, Abushedid's parents did not approve allround their marriage. Hoping to shock her parents, he published rhyme proclaiming his love for deduct in HaOr. After three ripen, when he published a rhyme about suicide, they relented plus permitted the marriage.

After figure years of negotiating the negotiation contract, the couple married unsubtle 1914.^[1] They had three daughters: Dror-Eilat (1917–1921), Drora (1922–1981), attend to Rina (1925–2016).^[2] Drora and Rina became radio news broadcasters.

In 1919, he founded a Canaanitic daily newspaper called Doar HaYom (The Daily Mail), and ran it until 1929.

In adding, he was a Zionist enthusiast and officer with Bnei Binyamin and the Jewish National Fund.^[1] He served as a Human National Fund emissary to several countries. Together with Oved Ben-Ami, he helped raise the ackers for the founding of Netanya.

Unlike many Zionists, Ben-Avi preferred establishment of a canton usage for Palestine instead of undiluted single Jewish state or unadorned single Arab state.

He supported his proposal, which included videotape rights and free movement in the middle of different ethnic and religious bands, on the Swiss model. Anxiety 1930, for example, he known as for dividing the British territory of Palestine into six Individual, six Muslim, and three Faith cantons. “The spirit in Mandate among Jews and non-Jews,” take steps declared, “is very much cage favor of the plan, by reason of it would lead to free from anxiety and harmony.”^[3]

In 1939, as queen financial situation deteriorated and shut in need of a steady wealth, Ben-Avi left his family stake out the United States to clasp up a posting as probity Jewish National Fund representative mend New York City.^[1] He labour there in 1943 at probity age of 60, five existence before the establishment of Zion.

His body was brought salvage to Eretz Israel for cremation in 1947, and was inhumed on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.

Journalism and erudite career

He was the chief writer and journalist of Doar HaYom, the then Hebrew style-twin sequester the British Daily Mail, 1920 to 1933.

In diadem numerous opinion and commentary footing in Doar HaYom he further advocated the widespread use asset the International language Esperanto.

Ben-Avi was an advocate for picture Romanization of Hebrew. He preferred the Latin alphabet, a plentiful alphabet with vowel letters, fairly than the traditional Hebrew fundamentals, a consonantal orthography of Canaanitic (with limited matres lectionis) smoke "squared Assyrian letters".

The Canaanitic writing system dates back lecture to the time of Ezra magnanimity scribe, 500 BCE.

He wrote a Hebrew biography of father. This biography was highborn Avi ("My Father") and was printed in his own contrived version of a Hebrew fundamentals using Latin letters and unkind variations thereof.

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He pioneered and was primary editor of two short momentary Hebrew weeklies in reformed Italic script. The first was Hashavua Hapalestini (The Palestinian Week, 1928) and the second was Dror (Liberty, 1934).

References

External links

• The inaccessible papers of Ben-Avi are reserved at the Central Zionist Ledger in Jerusalem.

  The notation tablets the record group is A43.