Avraham Even-Shoshan

Avraham Even-Shoshan
אברהם אבן־שוֹשן
Born	Avraham Rosenstein (1906-12-25)25 December 1906 Minsk,  Russian Empire (now Belarus)
Died	8 August 1984(1984-08-08) (aged 77) Tel Aviv,  Israel
Resting place	Har HaMenuchot, Jerusalem
Alma mater	College for Hebrew Teachers Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Occupation(s)	Linguist and lexicographer
Notable work	Even-Shoshan Dictionary
Awards	1978 Israel Prize for language 1981 Bialik Prize for Jewish thought

Avraham Even-Shoshan^[a] (né Rozenshteyn;^[b] 25 December 1906 – 8 August 1984) was a Belarusian-born Israeli Hebrew linguist and lexicographer, compiler of the Even-Shoshan dictionary, one of the foremost dictionaries of the Hebrew language.
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