Yehuda Even Shemuel (

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, 1886-

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, 1976) was an

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Jewish scholar, translator and lexicographer. He won the

Israel Prize The Israel Prize ( he, פרס ישראל; ''pras israél'') is an award bestowed by the State of Israel, and regarded as the state's highest cultural honor. History The Israel Prize is awarded annually, on Israeli Independence Day, in a state cer ...

in 1973. Yehuda Kaufman (later Even Shemuel) was born in

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. He studied in three

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. At the age of eighteen, after passing the examination of a six-years’ course in a Russian gymnasium, he studied in London and then Paris, where he was accepted to the law school of the University of Paris. He immigrated to Montreal, Canada in 1913. His English-Hebrew dictionary was known as ''The Kaufman Dictionary''. After the birth of his son Shmuel, he adopted the name Even Shmuel (Ibn Samuel), after his father, and following his death, on the day of his discharge from the Palmach on May 2, 1947, he officially changed his name.THE CANADIAN YEARS OF YEHUDA KAUFMAN (EVEN SHMUEL): EDUCATOR, JOURNALIST, AND INTELLECTUAL
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