Kernerman Dictionary News • Number 13 • June 2005

Ya'acov Levy 1952-2004

 
 

 


Ya'acov Levy passed away on his fifty-second birthday, December 23. The cancer he fought against for two years finally overcame him.

 

Ya'acov was wise, modest, noble, a man of words – a man of few words, a gifted lexicographer. He usually prefered not to talk or write about his dictionary-making but let it speak for itself. Indeed, he has had a decisive impact upon English/Hebrew lexicography in Israel in the past two decades, and his dictionaries are in practically every home.

Ya'acov Levy died young, before having realized his finest dictionary dreams. His legacy shall live on.

 

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