Ethiopia Street nestles just off the Street of the Prophets in the center of Jerusalem. Most of Ethiopia Street’s buildings were constructed in the 1880s with one of its most famous residents, the reviver of the modern Hebrew language, Eliezer Ben Yehuda (1858-1922), living for a good number of years with his wife and family at No. 11. The front door of the former Ben Yehuda abode opens directly out on to the narrow street. It is just a dozen or so steps away from the high-walled and iron-gated entrance to a large courtyard and the impressive silver-domed, circular Ethiopian church opposite.
The plaque on the front of the house reads:
ELIEZER BEN YEHUDA Built by the Nashashibi family. During 1909-1922 the top floor was home of Eliezer Ben Yehuda, a Hebrew lexicographer and the Hatzvi newspaper editor. Ben Yehuda was an important driving force behind the revival of the daily spoken Hebrew Lanquage in the country.
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