Itamar Ben-Avi - Efforts Towards Latinization of Hebrew Script

Efforts Towards Latinization of Hebrew Script

See also: Romanization of Hebrew

Ben Avi was a fervent and ardent advocate for the usage of a new Latin script system, a full alphabet with vowel letters, rather than the current consonantal orthography of Hebrew (with limited matres lectionis) using "squared Assyrian letters". The current Hebrew writing system dates back to the time of Ezra the scribe, 500 BCE.

He wrote a Hebrew biography of his father. This biography was titled "AVI" (meaning: my father) and was printed in his own made-up version of Hebrew script, using Latin letters and some variations thereof, to fit the needs of the Hebrew language. He pioneered and was chief editor of two short lived Hebrew weeklies in reformed Latin script. The first was "ha Savuja ha Palestini" (The Palestinian week, 1928) and the second was "Deror" (Liberty, 1934). Each of the weeklies was published in 17 numbers in total before closing.

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