Reuben Alcalay ראובן אלקלעי (also called Reuven; 1907 in
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
– 1976 in Jerusalem) was an Israeli lexicographer and author of the most comprehensive English-Hebrew-English dictionary, which expanded the dictionaries of
Ben-Yehuda
Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda ( he, אֱלִיעֶזֶר בֵּן־יְהוּדָה}; ; born Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman, 7 January 1858 – 16 December 1922) was a Russian–Jewish linguist, grammarian, and journalist, renowned as the lexicographer of ...
(
Ben-Yehuda Dictionary),
Avraham Even-Shoshan
Avraham Even-Shoshanrussian: Авраа́м Э́вен-Шоша́н, translit=Avraam Even-Shoshan (né Rozenshteyn;russian: Розенштейн 25 December 1906 – 8 August 1984) was a Belarusian-born Israeli Hebrew linguist and lexicographer, ...
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Even-Shoshan Dictionary
The Hebrew language, Hebrew dictionary by Avraham Even-Shoshan, commonly known as the ''Even-Shoshan Dictionary'', was first published (1948–1952) as " (''milon ḥadash'', ''A New Dictionary''), later (1966–1970) as (''hamilon heḥadash'', ...
),
Judah Even Shemuel (Kaufmann), Meir Medan,
Harry Torczyner (
Tur-Sinai), and
Jacob Knaani.
His ''Complete English-Hebrew Dictionary'' (1961, 2,150 pages) aimed to contain all the modern Hebrew terms decided upon by the
Hebrew Language Academy, and thousands of other new coinages from the Hebrew press literature. The first edition received a three-page review in the magazine of the American Jewish Congress in 1964.
[Judaism: Volume 13; Volume 13 American Jewish Congress - 1964] The companion volume, ''Complete Hebrew-English Dictionary,'' (מילון אנגלי עברי שלם) was published in 1965.
The dictionary contains entries and translations without pronunciation or examples. It is numbered by column rather than page.
References
Israeli lexicographers
1907 births
1976 deaths
20th-century lexicographers
Sephardi Jews in Mandatory Palestine
Burials at Har HaMenuchot
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