Academy for the Hebrew Language

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Academy headquarters in Jerusalem

The Academy for the Hebrew Language (הָאָקָדֶמְיָה לַלָּשׁוֹן הָעִבְרִית, ha-ʾaqademya la-lašon ha-ʿivriṯ ) was founded in 1953 by decision of the Israeli government and with the leading participation of Tur-Sinai in 1953 as the "highest institution for the teaching of the Hebrew language " in Jerusalem founded.

It replaced the Council of the Hebrew Language ( Wa'ad ha-Laschon ha-ʻIvrit ) established by Eliezer Ben-Jehuda in 1890 . The Academy is responsible for creating new Hebrew words to keep up with rapidly changing society. She is also responsible for regulating the spelling, grammar and vocabulary of publications by government and educational institutions. The academy has 23 members and 15 academic advisors (as of 2008). The members are linguists , Judaists , orientalists , writers and translators .

Although the organization's task is, among other things, to create new words from Hebrew roots and structures, its own name contains a loan word - akademja .

The academy publishes a brochure under the title אקדם at irregular intervals, in which it reports on new language creations, specialist vocabulary and historical facts.

The first German honorary member of the academy has been Stefan Schorch , Professor of Biblical Studies at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , since October 2016 .

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  1. ^ Jüdische Rundschau, November 3, 2016

Coordinates: 31 ° 46 ′ 20.6 "  N , 35 ° 11 ′ 54.6"  E