| Avraham Even-Shoshan | |
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| Born | Avraham Rosenstein 1906 Minsk, Belarus |
| Died | 1984 Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Citizenship | Israeli |
| Alma mater | The College for Hebrew Teachers (now the David Yellin Academic College of Education) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Occupation | Linguist and lexicographer |
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Avraham Even-Shoshan (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם אֶבֶן שׁוֹשָׁן; 1906–84) was a Russian-born Hebrew linguist and lexicographer, compiler of one of the foremost dictionaries of the Hebrew language.
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Avraham Rosenstein, later Avraham Even-Shoshan, was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1906. He attended the cheder run by his father, who later sent him to public school and yeshiva.
Rosenstein immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1925, where he changed his name to Even-Shoshan, a translation of Rosenstein, and initially worked as a laborer. He studied at the College for Hebrew Teachers (now the David Yellin Academic College of Education)[1] in Jerusalem and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[2]
In 1946-58, Even-Shoshan compiled HaMilon HeHadash (New Dictionary of the Hebrew Language), which became known as the Even-Shoshan Dictionary. The completed dictionary consisted of 24,698 main entries. [3] He was also the author of the Even-Shoshan concordance and co-author of the Bialik concordance.
Even-Shoshan died in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1984.
In 2005, he was voted the 84th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.[6]