''Ha-Shaḥar'' () was a

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-language monthly periodical, published and edited at

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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

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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 (born Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman; 7 January 1858 – 16 December 1922) was a Russian–Jewish linguist, lexicographer, and journalist who immigrated to Jerusalem in 1881, when the Ottoman Empire ruled it. He is renowned as the ...

* * Reuben Asher Braudes *

Salomon Buber Salomon (or Solomon) Buber (2 February 1827 – 28 December 1906) was a Jewish Galician scholar and editor of Hebrew works. He is especially remembered for his editions of Midrash and other medieval Jewish manuscripts, and for the pioneering res ...

* * Israel Frenkel * Abraham Shalom Friedberg * David Frischmann *

Judah Leib Gordon Judah Leib Gordon (, ; December 7, 1830 – September 16, 1892), also known as Leon Gordon, was among the most important Hebrew poets of the Haskalah. Biography Gordon was born to well-to-do Jewish parents who owned a hotel in Vilnius. As a p ...

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. B ...

* Hayyim Jonah Gurland * Alexander Harkavy * Ish-Shalom *

Adolf Jellinek Adolf Jellinek ( ''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 the Leopoldstädter Temp ...

Bertha Kreidmann Bertha Rabbinowicz-Kreidmann (; died May 16, 1871) was a Hebrew poet and letter writer. Her father, Moshe Aharon Kreidmann, was an educated man from Iași who encouraged his daughter's literary pursuits. She moved to Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ...

* Adam ha-Kohen * David Kahana *

Isaac Kaminer Isaac ben Abraham Kaminer (, ''Yitsḥak ben Avraham Kaminer''; 1834 – 30 March 1901) was a Russian-Jewish Hebrew-language poet, satirist, and physician. Biography Isaac ben Abraham Kaminer was born in May 1834 in Levkiev in right-bank Ukraine ...

* * * Yehudah Leib Levin * Joshua Lewinsohn * Aaron Liebermann *

Moshe Leib Lilienblum Moshe Leib Lilienblum (; October 22, 1843, in Keidany, Kovno Governorate – February 12, 1910, in Odessa) was a Jewish scholar and author. He also used the pseudonym Zelophehad Bar-Hushim (). Lilienbloom was one of the leaders of the early Zioni ...

Salomon Mandelkern Salomon Mandelkern (; ; pseudonym ''Mindaloff'') was a Russian lexicographer, poet and author. Early life Mandelkern was born to a Russian Jewish family. He was educated as a Talmudist. After his father's death he went to Dubno (he was then fourt ...

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

* I. L. Peretz * * Solomon Rubin *

Senior Sachs Senior Sachs (; 17 June 1816 – 18 November 1892), also known as the ''Or shani'' (), was a Russian Empire, Russo-France, French Hebrew language, Hebrew writer and scholar. Biography Early life and education Senior Sachs was born to a Jews, ...

Isaac Hirsch Weiss Isaac (Isaak) Hirsch Weiss, also Eisik Hirsch Weiss () (9 February 1815 – 1 June 1905), was an Jews of Austria, Austrian Talmudist and historian of literature born at Velké Meziříčí, Groß Meseritsch, Habsburg Moravia. After having recei ...

* Ze'ev Yavetz * Samuel Leib Zitron

References

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