Reuben Alcalay
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1907 –
Who is Reuben Alcalay?
Reuven Alcalay ראובן אלקלעי was an Israeli lexicographer and author of the most comprehensive English-Hebrew-English dictionary, which expanded the dictionaries of Ben-Yehuda, Avraham Even-Shoshan, Judah Even Shemuel, Meir Medan, Harry Torczyner, and Jacob Knaani.
His Complete English-Hebrew dictionary aimed to contain all the modern Hebrew terms decided upon by the Hebrew Language Academy, and thousands of other new coinages from the Hebrew press literature. The first edition received a three page review in the magazine of the American Jewish Congress in 1964. The companion volume, Complete Hebrew-English Dictionary, was published in 1965.
The dictionary contains entries and translations without pronunciation or examples. It is numbered by column rather than page.
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