''Ha-Shaḥar'' () was a

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-language monthly periodical, published and edited at

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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, ...

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

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. Its publication was interrupted several times for lack of support. ''Ha-Shaḥar'' greatly influenced the

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movement, especially in Russia, where it was well known. It was read secretly in the ''

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'', in private houses, and in the '' batte midrashot''.

Contributors

Among the periodical's contributors were: *

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 ...

* * Reuben Asher Braudes * Salomon Buber * *

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, Shr ...

* Abraham Shalom Friedberg * David Frischmann * Judah Leib Gordon *

Avrom Ber Gotlober Avrom Ber Gotlober (; 14 January 1811 – 12 April 1899), also known by the pen names Abag () and Mahalalel (), was a Russian Maskilic writer, poet, playwright, historian, journalist and educator. His first collection was published in 1835. ...

Hayyim Jonah Gurland Jonah Hayyim Gurland (1843 – March 14, 1890) was a Russian and Hebrew writer born at Kleck, government of Minsk. At the age of 10, Gurland entered the rabbinical school of Wilna, from which he graduated as rabbi in 1860. He then went to St. Pet ...

Alexander Harkavy Alexander Harkavy ( yi, אַלכּסנדר האַרקאַווי, russian: Александр Гаркави, ''Aleksandr Garkavi''; May 5, 1863 at Nowogrudok (), Minsk guberniya (''governorate''), Russian Empire (now Navahrudak, Hrodna Voblast ...

* Ish-Shalom *

Adolf Jellinek Adolf Jellinek ( he, אהרן ילינק ''Aharon Jelinek''; 26 June 1821 in Drslavice, Moravia – 28 December 1893 in Vienna) was an Austrian rabbi and scholar. After filling clerical posts in Leipzig (1845–1856), he became a preacher at t ...

* Adam ha-Kohen * David Kahana * Isaac Kaminer * * * Yehudah Leib Levin * Joshua Lewinsohn * Aaron Liebermann * Moshe Leib Lilienblum *

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 f ...

Joel Müller Joel Müller (1827 – November 6, 1895) was a Germans, German rabbi and Talmudist, born in Uherský Ostroh, Ungarisch-Ostra, Moravia, and dying in Berlin.Jewish Encyclopedia Bibliography:''Allg. Zeit. des Jud.'' 1895, pp. 542-543, 556-557. He rec ...

I. L. Peretz Isaac Leib Peretz ( pl, Icchok Lejbusz Perec, yi, יצחק־לייבוש פרץ) (May 18, 1852 – April 3, 1915), also sometimes written Yitskhok Leybush Peretz was a Polish Jewish writer and playwright writing in Yiddish. Payson R. Stevens, Cha ...

* * Solomon Rubin * Senior Sachs *

Isaac Hirsch Weiss Isaac (Isaak) Hirsch Weiss, also Eisik Hirsch Weiss () (9 February 1815 – 1 June 1905), was an Austrian Talmudist and historian of literature born at Groß Meseritsch, Habsburg Moravia. After having received elementary instruction in Hebrew ...

* Ze'ev Yavetz * Samuel Leib Zitron

References

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