Judah BehakW
Judah Behak

Judah Behak, also known by the pen name Ish Vilna be-Kherson, was a Russian Hebrew writer, philologist, and Biblical commentator.

Simon DeutschW
Simon Deutsch

Simon Deutsch was an Austrian Jewish bibliographer, businessman, and revolutionary. He was an important member of the First International and a veteran of the Paris Commune.

Innocent HimbazaW
Innocent Himbaza

Innocent Himbaza is a Rwandan born Lutheran pastor, hebraist, private lecturer at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) for the exegesis of Biblical theology of the Old Testament.

R. H. KennettW
R. H. Kennett

Robert Hatch Kennett was Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge from 1903 to 1932.

Jørgen Alexander KnudtzonW
Jørgen Alexander Knudtzon

Jørgen Alexander Knudtzon was a Norwegian linguist and historian. He was a professor of Semitic Languages at the University of Oslo from 1907.

Chava ShapiroW
Chava Shapiro

Chava Shapiro, known also by the pen name Em Kol Chai, was a Russian Jewish writer, critic, and journalist. A pioneer of Hebrew women's literature and feminist literary criticism, Shapiro was among the most prolific of the diasporic women writers of Hebrew in the early twentieth century.

Abraham SkorkaW
Abraham Skorka

Abraham Skorka is an Argentine biophysicist, rabbi and book author. Abraham Skorka is rector emeritus of the Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano in Buenos Aires, the rabbi of the Jewish community Benei Tikva, professor of biblical and rabbinic literature at the Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano and honorary professor of Hebrew Law at the Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires.

Yitzhak Yaakov YellinW
Yitzhak Yaakov Yellin

Yitzchak Yaakov Yellin was one of the pioneers of the Hebrew language and press in Mandatory Palestine and then Israel. He was one of the founders and editor of the daily newspaper "Moriah", as well as the editor of the weekly newspapers "Lefi Sha'a", "Be'inyaney Dyuma", and “Hed ha'am”. Yellin published Hebrew grammar books and was known as an educational figure who widely contributed towards the spread and use of the Hebrew language in Jerusalem of the early 20th century. He was also one of the founders of the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood in West Jerusalem.