Dola Ben-Yehuda Wittmann

Dola Ben-Yehuda Wittmann was born in 1902

Dola Ben-Yehuda was born in Jerusalem in 1902 to Eliezer and Hemda Ben-Yehuda. She was named Devora after her father's first wife, who was her mother's sister, and later officially changed her name to Dola. Her brother was Ehud Ben-Yehuda, and Itamar Ben-Avi was her half-brother.

She grew up in a home where her father insisted that the children speak only Hebrew. She and her siblings were among the first native speakers of Hebrew in modern times.

In 1926 she traveled to Paris with her mother and met Max Wittmann, a Protestant German. She joined him in Germany in 1931, and after they married they lived near Stuttgart. When the Nazis came to power, the couple moved to the Land of Israel, and in 1948 they emigrated to the United States, where she taught Hebrew.

In 1970 the couple returned to Israel, and she devoted her time to her father's legacy. In 1997 she initiated and funded a center for the study of the history of the Hebrew language at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She contributed to the Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive recording.

She died in 2004 and donated her body to science. Her remains were buried in her husband's grave in the German Colony of Jerusalem.