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Ha-Shaḥar
''Ha-Shaḥar'' () was a Hebrew-language monthly periodical, published and edited at Vienna by Peretz Smolenskin from 1868 to 1884. The journal contained scientific articles, essays, biographies, and literature, as well as general Jewish news. The objects of Smolenskin were to spread Englightenment and knowledge of the Hebrew language, and particularly to oppose obscurantism. Its publication was interrupted several times for lack of support. ''Ha-Shaḥar'' greatly influenced the Haskalah movement, especially in Russia, where it was well known. It was read secretly in the ''yeshivot'', in private houses, and in the '' batte midrashot''. Contributors Among the periodical's contributors were: * Eliezer Ben-Yehuda * * Reuben Asher Braudes * Salomon Buber * * Israel Frenkel * Abraham Shalom Friedberg * David Frischmann * Judah Leib Gordon * Avrom Ber Gotlober * Hayyim Jonah Gurland * Alexander Harkavy * Ish-Shalom * Adolf Jellinek * Adam ha-Kohen * David Kahana * Isaac Kam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solomon Rubin
Solomon Rubin (3 April 1823, in Dolina, Galicia – 1910) was a Galicia Hebrew author. Life He was educated for the rabbinate, but, being attracted by ''Haskalah'' and modern learning, he entered upon a business career which lasted about five years. This proving unsuccessful, he went to Lemberg, where he studied bookkeeping at a technical institute, and also acquired a knowledge of German, French and Italian. After serving two years in the Austrian army he attempted to establish himself in Lemberg as a teacher; but persecution due to his liberal views made his position untenable, and he went to Romania, at that time a very favorable field for active and enterprising Galician Jews. He secured a good position in a commercial establishment in Galaţi, which enabled him to devote his evenings to his favorite studies. In 1859 Rubin returned to Galicia and became principal of a school for Jewish boys in Bolechow. He went to Russia in 1863, where he was engaged as a private tutor i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yehudah Leib Levin
Yehudah Leib ha-Levi Levin (; 1844 – 30 November 1925), also known by the acronyms Yehalel and Yehalal, was a Hebrew socialist maskilic Hebrew poet, writer, and publicist. His poems were the first to introduce socialist themes into Hebrew literature. Biography Early life and career Yehudah Leib Levin was born in Minsk, White Russia to a well-established Ḥasidic family. His father, Rabbi Baruch Chaim Levin, was a well-to-do merchant and scholar with a close relationship to Rabbi Shlomo Chaim Perlov of Koidanov, and his mother Miriam was the daughter of Ḥasidic rebbe Moshe of Kobrin. Levin married at the age of 17 and went to live with his father-in-law in the shtetl of Puchowitz, where he discovered the Chabad movement and diligently studied its doctrine and literature. He is known as the author of epic poem in three parts, also concerning the social condition of the Russian Jews. Zionism As a reaction to the 1881 pogroms, Levin began to draw away from the socialist c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Frischmann
David ben Saul Frischmann (, 31 December 1859 – 4 August 1922) was a Hebrew and Yiddish modernist writer, poet, and translator. He edited several important Hebrew periodicals, and wrote fiction, poetry, essays, feuilletons, literary criticisms, and translations. Biography David Frischmann was born in the town of Zgierz to Shaul and Freida Beila Frischmann. Frischmann's family moved to Lodz when he was two years old, where he received a private education combining Jewish and humanistic studies. Frischmann showed literary talent at a young age, and was considered a prodigy. Between 1895 and 1910 Frischmann studied philology Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ..., philosophy and the history of art at the University of Wrocław, University of Breslau where he befri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel Frenkel
Israel Frenkel (; 18 September 1853 – 1890) was a Polish-Jewish Hebraist, translator, and educator. Biography Frenkel was born in Radom, Poland in 1853. His mother, Neḥama , was a descendant of Yaakov Yitzḥak of Lublin, and his father, Shraga Frenkel, came from a scholarly Hasidic family. He studied Talmudic literature under Rabbi Samuel Mohilever, at the same time studying Hebrew, German, and French. An early member of the Hibbat Zion movement, Frenkel became close friends with Mohilever, as well as with and Nahum Sokolow. he founded a Talmud Torah in Radom in 1882, which emphasized the study of both Judaic and secular subjects. His translations into Hebrew include Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's drama '' Miss Sara Sampson'', under the title ''Sara bat Shimshon'' (Warsaw, 1887); the songs in metric verse in David Radner's translation of Schiller's '' Wilhelm Tell'' (Vilna, 1878); and 's drama ''Esterka'', under the title ''Masʾa Ester'' (Warsaw, 1889), the heroine of wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda ( he, אֱלִיעֶזֶר בֵּן־יְהוּדָה}; ; born Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman, 7 January 1858 – 16 December 1922) was a Russian–Jewish linguist, grammarian, and journalist, renowned as the lexicographer of the first Hebrew dictionary, and the editor of ''HaZvi'', one of the first Hebrew newspapers published in the Land of Israel/ Palestine. He was the main driving force behind the revival of the Hebrew language. Biography Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman (later Eliezer Ben-Yehuda) was born in Luzhki ( be, Лужкі (''Lužki''), Vilna Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Vitebsk Oblast, Belarus) to Yehuda Leib and Tzipora Perlman, who were Chabad ''hasidim''. He attended a Jewish elementary school (a "cheder") where he studied Hebrew and the Bible from the age of three, as was customary among the Jews of Eastern Europe. By the age of twelve, he had read large portions of the Torah, Mishna, and Talmud. His mother and uncle hoped he would become ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Kaminer
Isaac ben Abraham Kaminer (, ''Yitsḥak ben Avraham Kaminer''; 1834 – 30 March 1901) was a Russian Empire Jewish Hebrew-language poet, satirist, and physician. Biography Isaac ben Abraham Kaminer was born in May 1834 in Levkiev in right-bank Ukraine, near Zhitomir. Drawn into the Haskalah movement in his youth, he left the Ukraine for Vilna, where he associated with ''maskilim'', in particular with Samuel Joseph Fuenn. He rejoined his wife and newborn child in Zhitomir in 1854, where he taught at the government school for Jews until 1859. He studied mathematics and medicine at the University of Kiev, graduating as a physician in 1865. While in Kiev, Kaminer inclined toward socialism and joined the circles of Aaron Liebermann and Judah Leib Levin. His two daughters married revolutionaries and his home served as a meeting place and hideout. Russian revolutionary leader Pavel Axelrod, who married Kaminer's daughter, claimed he first came across ''Das Kapital'' in Kaminer's home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Lewinsohn
Joshua Lewinsohn was a Russian teacher and writer. He was born in 1833 at Vyeshiuti, in the Kovno region. He received his Talmudical education at Zhagory, in the house of his uncle Simon Hurvitz, and graduated in 1865 from the Gymnasium of Mitau, remaining there until 1874, when he was appointed inspector of the Jewish school at Tukum, Courland. His first articles in Hebrew appeared in ''"Ha-Maggid"'' in 1857; he contributed extensively to that paper and to ''Ha-Melitz'', '' Ha-Shachar'', and other Hebrew periodicals. He was also for many years a contributor to the German '' Rigasche Zeitung''. Lewinsohn published: ''Eretz Russia u-Melo'ah'' (Wilna, 1868), a geography and topography of Russia; ''Toledot Anshe Shem be-Yisrael'', biographies of about fifty Jewish authors; and "Toledot Sechar ha-Yehudim" (in ''Ha-Shachar''), a history of Jewish commerce. He also wrote numerous articles on Jewish history Jewish history is the history of the Jews, and their nation, religion, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Liebermann
Aaron Samuel Liebermann (, ''Aharon Shmu'el Liberman''; 20 May 1845 – 18 November 1880), also known by his pen names Bar Drora and Daniel Ish Ḥamudot and later as Arthur Freeman, was a socialist author, Hebrew translator, and political essayist. A pioneer of Jewish socialism and the Jewish labour movement, he was described by Rudolf Rocker and Ber Borochov as the "father of Jewish socialism". Biography Early life Aaron Samuel Liebermann was born in Luna, a shtetl in the province of Grodno, Russia. His father, Eliezer Dov Liebermann, was a maskilic author and scholar. His family moved to Bialystok and from there to Suvalk, where Liebermann received his early education. In 1866, he married Raḥel Trotsky, with whom he had three daughters and a son. He graduated from the Vilna Rabbinical Seminary with a teacher's diploma in 1867, and returned to Suvalk, where he was appointed secretary of the community and teacher. He began studies at the Technological Institute of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moshe Leib Lilienblum
Moshe Leib Lilienblum ( yi, משה לייב לילינבלום; October 22, 1843 in Keidany, Kovno Governorate – February 12, 1910 in Odessa) was a Jewish scholar and author. He also used the pseudonym Zelaphchad Bar-Chuschim ( he, צלפחד בר־חושים). Biography Moshe Yehuda Leib Lilienblum was the son of R. Zevi, a poor cooper. From his father, he learned the calculation of the course of the stars in their relation to the Hebrew calendar (''Ḥaṭṭot Ne'urim'', vol. 1, p. 15). His maternal grandfather, who was a teacher, also contributed to his early education. At the age of thirteen, he organized a society of boys for the study of '' En Ya'aqob'' (''Ḥaṭṭot Ne'urim'', vol. 1, p. 14); and at the age of fifteen he married and settled at Vilkomir. A change in the fortunes of his father-in-law threw him upon his own resources, and in 1865, Lilienblum established a yeshivah in Vilna and another the following year (''Ḥaṭṭot Ne'urim'', vol. 1, p. 53-54 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salomon Mandelkern
Salomon Mandelkern ( he, שלמה מנדלקרן; ; pseudonym ''Mindaloff'') was a Russian-Jewish poet and author.Anton Bettelheim1905, Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog, Band 7, p. 5/ref> He was educated as a Talmudist. After his father's death he went to Dubno (he was then fourteen), where he continued his Talmudical studies. He became associated with the Ḥasidim in that community and with their "rabbi," Menachem Mendel of Kotzk, with whose son David he spent some time studying Jewish philosophy and Cabala. After his marriage he went to Wilna, entered its rabbinical school, and graduated as a rabbi. Mandelkern subsequently studied Oriental languages at St. Petersburg University, where he was awarded a gold medal for an essay on the parallel passages of the Bible. In 1873 he became assistant rabbi at Odessa, where he was the first to deliver sermons in Russian, and where he studied law at the university. The degree of Ph.D. was conferred upon him by the Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Müller
Joel Müller (1827 – November 6, 1895) was a German rabbi and Talmudist, born in Ungarisch-Ostra, Moravia, and dying in Berlin.Jewish Encyclopedia Bibliography:''Allg. Zeit. des Jud.'' 1895, pp. 542-543, 556-557. He received a thorough Talmudic training and succeeded his father as rabbi of his native town. His next rabbinate was that of Leipa, Bohemia; some of the sermons which he preached there have been published — "''Die Spenden der Mutterfreude''" (1868) and a collection of sermons on "Bibelbilder" (1869). Later he preached in Berlin. From Leipa Müller went to Vienna, and became teacher of religion in a "''Realschule''." This he resigned to become professor of Talmud at the Berlin Lehranstalt für die Wissenschaft des Judenthums. In 1878 Müller published in Vienna an edition of the "'' Masseket Soferim''," and in the same year "''Ḥilluf Minhagim''"; the latter, which is a work of great value, first appeared in the Hebrew periodical "''Ha-Shaḥar''." Müller's treatme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peretz Smolenskin
Peretz (Peter) Smolenskin (; 25 February 1842 – 1 February 1885) was a Russian-born Zionist and Hebrew writer. Biography Peretz Smolenskin was born in Monastyrshchina, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire (in present-day Smolensk Oblast, Russia). His family came from Smolensk. His older brother was seized by the Czar's army and never returned. His father, falsely accused of a crime, was a fugitive for over two years and died when Peretz was eleven. At the age of 12, he left home to study at yeshiva for five years. He began reading secular books and learning Russian under the influence of the Haskalah movement. Smolenskin traveled through southern Russia and the Crimea, supporting himself by singing in choirs and preaching in synagogues. In 1862 he settled in Odessa where he studied music and languages and taught Hebrew. He published his first story in 1867. In the course of his travels through Romania, Germany and Bohemia, he acquired Turkish nationality. Literary caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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