{"641068":{"#nid":"641068","#data":{"type":"event","title":"One Man Against All Odds - Virtual Guest Lecture with Eliezera Ben-Yehuda Cassuto","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EONE MAN AGAINST ALL ODDS\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVIRTUAL GUEST LECTURE BY ELIEZERA BEN-YEHUDA CASSUTO\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENovember 9th, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. EST\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe life story of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, who struggled to revive a 2,000-year-old, ancient and dead language, which has been used mostly for Torah Study, has now renewed Hebrew as a Modern Spoken Language.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEliezera was born in Jerusalem in 1936 and grew up in the Ben-Yehuda house in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem. She grew up during the Arab riots, the British Mandate, the siege of Jerusalem and the War of Independence. After attending a Talpiot elementary school she studied at the \u0026quot;Eshkoli,\u0026rdquo; Beit Chinuch school. At the age of 18, Eliezera left Jerusalem to begin a journey of study and self-search. She arrived in New York where she studied, matured, and shaped herself.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEliezra holds a master\u0026#39;s degree in education from the Brooklyn College, as well as a doctoral degree in the composition of curriculum and teacher training at Columbia University (New York). She has been in education for many years. She has worked as a Hebrew teacher and taught general subjects in American public schools, private Jewish schools, and synagogues. Eliezera has built curricula, and she deals with teacher training and instruction in Jewish and Hebrew summer camps.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, she wrote the book \u0026quot;Between Sunrises an Sunsets,\u0026quot; which brings together stories that reflect her life and memories, as well as the Israeli and Jewish experience. The book carries a special aroma of the Hebrew language in the house of her father and is accompanied by a dictionary of expressions of the Ben-Yehuda language and their interpretation in contemporary Hebrew.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEliezera is the widow of Avi Cassuto. She has four children, ten grandchildren and a great-grandchild.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EContact:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nKeren Ben-Haim\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kbenhaim3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ekbenhaim3@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIn collaboration with: \u003C\/strong\u003EThe Department of Modern Languages and Literatures \u0026amp; The George Feldenkreis Program in Judaic Studies, University of Miami; Atlanta Global Studies Center\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDate:\u003C\/strong\u003E November 9th, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. EST\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEvent Link: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/miami.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJAvfu2grzosG9LrxJCSnJT9V8Qlh7QozIH0\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/miami.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJAvfu2grzosG9LrxJCSnJT9V8Qlh7QozIH0\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The life story of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, who struggled to revive a 2,000-year-old, ancient and dead language, which has been used mostly for Torah Study, has now renewed Hebrew as a Modern Spoken Language."}],"uid":"34815","created_gmt":"2020-11-06 15:16:27","changed_gmt":"2020-11-06 15:16:27","author":"esnelling3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2020-11-09T17:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2020-11-09T18:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2020-11-09T18:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2020-11-09 22:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2020-11-09 23:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2020-11-09 23:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"641063":{"id":"641063","type":"image","title":"One Man Against All Odds","body":null,"created":"1604675365","gmt_created":"2020-11-06 15:09:25","changed":"1604675365","gmt_changed":"2020-11-06 15:09:25","alt":"","file":{"fid":"243624","name":"One Man Against All Odds.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/One%20Man%20Against%20All%20Odds.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/One%20Man%20Against%20All%20Odds.png","mime":"image\/png","size":925628,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/One%20Man%20Against%20All%20Odds.png?itok=T9viwGzd"}}},"media_ids":["641063"],"groups":[{"id":"612000","name":"Atlanta Global Studies Center (AGSC)"},{"id":"611608","name":"Global Media and Cultures (GMC)"},{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EContact:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nKeren Ben-Haim\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kbenhaim3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ekbenhaim3@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}