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<blockquote data-quote="DM_Matt" data-source="post: 1409898" data-attributes="member: 1213"><p>Sort of.&nbsp; It was always preserved for use in prayer and in reading holy books, but until the 19th century is was (in Europe at least) considered a holy language only to be used for religious purposes, with Jews speaking Yiddish and/or the language of the country they lived in as their main spoken language.&nbsp; Then a Lithuanian named Eliezer Ben-Yehuda decided to update Hebrew for modern use and began a movement to speak it.&nbsp; His intent was to create a universal language that Jewsw throughought europe could speak.&nbsp; His actions came right on the heels of the early Zionist movement, and he&nbsp; moved to what would eventually be caled Israel, where his language was both needed (since Jews in Israel came from so many different places) and ideologically appropriate (Since the point of the Zionist movement was to return to their ancient homeland, why not their ancient language too?), it cought on and became one of the official languages there (Arabic is also an official language of Israel).</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="DM_Matt, post: 1409898, member: 1213"] Sort of. It was always preserved for use in prayer and in reading holy books, but until the 19th century is was (in Europe at least) considered a holy language only to be used for religious purposes, with Jews speaking Yiddish and/or the language of the country they lived in as their main spoken language. Then a Lithuanian named Eliezer Ben-Yehuda decided to update Hebrew for modern use and began a movement to speak it. His intent was to create a universal language that Jewsw throughought europe could speak. His actions came right on the heels of the early Zionist movement, and he moved to what would eventually be caled Israel, where his language was both needed (since Jews in Israel came from so many different places) and ideologically appropriate (Since the point of the Zionist movement was to return to their ancient homeland, why not their ancient language too?), it cought on and became one of the official languages there (Arabic is also an official language of Israel). [/QUOTE]

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