Alter Isaac Levin (; 4 January 1883 – 4 October 1933), also known by the pen name Asaph ha-Levi (), was a

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-language writer and poet. Born in

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, he immigrated to Ottoman Jerusalem (later

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) in 1891, studying there at the Etz Chaim Yeshiva. During

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he conducted espionage for the British. He committed suicide in 1933.

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1883 births 1933 deaths 19th-century Jews from the Russian Empire Ashkenazi Jews in Ottoman Palestine Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the Ottoman Empire Hebrew-language poets Jewish poets Ashkenazi Jews in Mandatory Palestine Suicides by hanging in Mandatory Palestine {{Poet-stub