Perez Smolenskin , c.1842-1885, Russian novelist and essayist who wrote in Hebrew. He settled in Vienna and founded the Hebrew monthly journal Ha-Shahar, which he edited until his death. His articles favored increased contact with the West. After the Russian pogroms of 1880-81, however, he became a champion of Zionism . His best-known novel is probably Am 'Olam (1873).
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Not Just a Holy Tongue
Jerusalem Post; 4/10/1998; Sraya Shapiro; 972 words;
... stress it was a Hebrew novelist living in Vienna, Perez Smolenskin, who in 1868 began publishing a Hebrew monthly magazine ... that was widely read throughout eastern Europe. Smolenskin reasoned that when the Jews finally returned to the ...
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This week in Jewish history
Jerusalem Post; 1/27/2002; Elli Wohlgelernter; 1751 words;
... Jewish language, editor of monthly Die Reform-Zeitung, author of Vogele der Maggid, Mendel Gibbor, 1884 Yahrzeit of Perez Smolenskin, Hebrew novelist, editor, publicist, a leading exponent of the Haskala in Eastern Europe and early advocate of Jewish ...
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