Avraham Even-Shoshan

• Name — Avraham Even-Shoshan • Native Name — אברהם אבן־שוֹשן • Birth Name — Avraham Rosenstein • Born — 25 December 1906 • Birthplace — Minsk, Russian Empire (now Belarus) • Died — 8 August 1984 • Place of death — Tel Aviv, Israel • Resting Place — Har HaMenuchot, Jerusalem • Education — * College for Hebrew Teachers • Hebrew University of Jerusalem • Occupation — Linguist and lexicographer • Notable Works — Even-Shoshan Dictionary • Awards — * 1978 Israel Prize for language • 1981 Bialik Prize for Jewish thought

Avraham Rozenshteyn was born in Minsk, in what was then the Russian Empire, on 25 December 1906. He attended the cheder run by his father, who later sent him to public school and yeshiva. Rosenstein managed to avoid the British restrictions on Jewish immigration to Mandatory Palestine and settled there in 1925, where he changed his name to Even-Shoshan, a translation of Rosenstein, and initially worked as a laborer. He studied at the College for Hebrew Teachers (now the David Yellin College of Education) in Jerusalem and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He worked as a teacher in Jerusalem until 1967. In 1946–58, Even-Shoshan compiled HaMilon HeHadash (The New Dictionary of the Hebrew Language), which since 2003 has become known as the Even-Shoshan Dictionary. The completed dictionary consisted of 24,698 main entries and about 70,000 words, and is still in print. It includes synonyms in Arabic, Aramaic, Akkadian, and Ugaritic. He was also the author of the Even-Shoshan concordance and co-author of the Bialik concordance. Even-Shoshan died in the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem in 1984. He was buried in the Har HaMenuchot.

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The following is established of origins and background. Born in 1906 at Minsk. The same evidence establishes that avraham Even-Shoshan died in 1984 at Jerusalem. Recorded at birth as אברהם רוזנשטיין.