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Eliezer Ben Yehuda, born on 7 January 1858 in the town of Glubokoye, then part of the Russian Empire, into a Jewish family. Today, this town is located in the Vitebsk Region of Belarus. Ben Yehuda received instruction in the Torah and Talmud during his childhood; at the age of 14, his family sent him to Polotsk to study at a yeshiva, a traditional Jewish religious school. Subsequently, in 1877, he moved to Paris to study medicine at the Sorbonne University, where he spent several years taking co