10.10 Haɗaɗɗiyar Harshe, Hebraicising da Tatsuniyar Maidowa: Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Kwamitin Harshen Ibrananci da Tatsuniyoyin Kafuwar Ibrananci Na Zamani

10.10 Haɗaɗɗiyar Harshe, Hebraicising da Tatsuniyar Maidowa: Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Kwamitin Harshen Ibrananci da Tatsuniyoyin Kafuwar Ibrananci Na Zamani - Falasdinu: Tarihin Shekaru Dubu Hudu | Quran Course

Tuwa, ga Zionistocin Turai na farko, gina sabuwar 'mazauni'/ƙasa a Falasdinu ya buƙaci ƙirƙirar sabon harshe da kafa tatsuniyoyi na ƙasa da wani abu daban gaba ɗaya – sabon harshen Ibrananci na zamani na Ashkenazi, mai tsarin duniya. Yawancin Zionistocin farko sun kira kansu 'Sabbin Ibraniyawa' ba Yahudawa ba, kuma, kamar yadda za mu gani a ƙasa, sun canza da gangan sunayen Yiddish, Rashanci, Polan ko Jamusanci da suke da su don su yi kama da na Ibrananci, na Littafi Mai Tsarki; misali sananne, David Grün da farko ya zama David Green bayan ya yi ƙaura zuwa Falasdinu, daga baya kuma David Ben-Gurion. Duk da haka, mai ƙirƙira mai mahimmanci kuma 'uban' Ibrananci na zamani shi ne Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (wanda a da ake kira Lazar Perelman) (1858–1922), wanda ya zama jarumi na almara a Zionism daidai da uban kafa Zionism na siyasa, Theodor Herzl. A matsayinsa na Zionist na al'adu, Ben-Yehuda ya ɗauki 'Ibrananci na zamani' da Zionism a matsayin abubuwa masu dogaro da juna. Ya yi tasiri ƙwarai wajen tsara sabuwar al'adar Ibraniyawa da ta samo asali daga 'hankalin dā' da aka ƙirƙira. Wannan ya dogara ne akan canza Ibrananci na addu'o'i daga harshe mai barci (kusan matacce) zuwa sabon harshen da miliyoyin Isra'ilawa ke magana a yau. A yau Isra'ilawa suna girmama Ben-Yehuda a matsayin wanda ya fara 'farfaɗowa' da 'sake rayuwar' harshen Ibrananci da kuma mahaliccin harshen Zionism na zamani. A yau Rehov Ben-Yehuda (Titin Ben-Yehuda), a tsakiyar Yammacin Urushalima, yana tunawa da mahaliccin Ibrananci na Isra'ila.

However, for early European Zionist leaders, to build a new ‘homeland’/ state in Palestine required the invention of a new language and the founding national myths and something altogether different – a new secular modern Ashkenazi Hebrew language. Many early Zionists called themselves ‘New Hebrews’ and not Jews, and, as we shall see below, deliberately changed their European Yiddish, Russian. Polish or German names to sound more Hebraic, more biblical; for a well-known example, David Grün initially became David Green after immigrating to Palestine, and subsequently David Ben-Gurion. However, the key inventor and ‘father’ of modern Hebrew was Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (formerly Lazar Perelman) (1858–1922), who became a legendary hero of Zionism on a par with the founding father of political Zionism, Theodor Herzl. As a cultural Zionist, Ben-Yehuda regarded ‘modern Hebrew’ and Zionism as symbiotic. He was hugely influential in the fashioning of a new Hebrew collective identity rooted in an invented ‘ancient consciousness’. This was based on the transformation of liturgical Hebrew from a dormant (almost dead) language to a new language spoken today by millions of Israelis. Today Ben-Yehuda is revered in Israel as the instigator of the Hebrew language ‘resurrection’ and ‘revival’ and the creator of a modern Zionist vernacular. Today Rehov Ben-Yehuda (Ben-Yehuda Street), in central West Jerusalem, commemorates the creator of Israeli Hebrew.