Barngarla people

Hebrew, the language of the ancient Israelites, was revived as the everyday language of a modern society, and ancient Jewish places and cultural traditions once again became part of the life of a sovereign people in its ancestral land.

The revival of Hebrew has inspired indigenous language revitalization elsewhere, including efforts to revive the Barngarla language among Aboriginal Australians.

In the decades surrounding Israel's establishment, roughly eight hundred fifty thousand Jews left or fled communities across the Arab and wider Muslim world amid persecution, expulsions, and political upheaval.

Many were stripped of their homes, property, and livelihoods, leaving behind communities that had existed for centuries, sometimes millennia.