Ze'ev Yavetz

Ze'ev (Wolf) Yavetz (Jawitz, Javetz) (

Hebrew

linguist.

Biography

Ze'ev (Wolf) Yavetz was born in Kolno in the Russian Empire (today in Poland). He published his first historical article in HaShahar, a Hebrew monthly published by Peretz Smolenskin.^[1]

In 1887, at the age of 40, he

Tu Bishvat that year he took his students to plant trees in Zikhron Ya'akov.^[2] This custom was adopted in 1908 by the Jewish Teachers Union and later by the Jewish National Fund

.

Yavetz was a member of the Hebrew Language Committee, and coined several modern Hebrew words, including tarbut (culture) and kvish (road).^[2]

After falling out with Baron Rothschild's administrators he moved to

Zionist leader with a small Torah scroll in a carved holder as a gift of honor from the Vilna community.^[3]

Yavetz used the Bible in a new thematic and stylistic manner with the object of reviving ancient ways of life. He has been called a "proto-Orientalist."[4]

In his later years he moved to England, where he completed his 14-volume history of the Jews entitled Toldot Yisrael.^[2] He died in London in 1924.

A moshav in Israel, Kfar Yavetz, is named after him.

References

^ Prophets of the Past: Interpreters of Jewish History, Michael Brenner
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d With Tu Bishvat near, a tree grows in Zichron Yaakov Haaretz, 25 January 2013
^ Theodore [sic] Herzl: A Biography, Alex Bein, Jewish Publication Society, 1956, p.451
^ Orientalism and the Hebrew Imagination, Yaron Peleg

[1] Prophets of the Past: Interpreters of Jewish History, Michael Brenner

[HA-2] With Tu Bishvat near, a tree grows in Zichron Yaakov Haaretz, 25 January 2013

[3] Theodore [sic] Herzl: A Biography, Alex Bein, Jewish Publication Society, 1956, p.451

[4] Orientalism and the Hebrew Imagination, Yaron Peleg

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