?aviv-Lubman, Avraham Dov
?AVIV-LUBMAN, AVRAHAM DOV
?AVIV-LUBMAN, AVRAHAM DOV (1864–1951), pioneer of Jewish settlement in Ere? Israel. Born on a Jewish agricultural settlement, Graitzevo, near Mogilev, ?aviv-Lubman joined the ?ovevei Zion movement and, in 1885, moved to Ere? Israel. He went to live in Peta? Tikvah with his uncle, Mordekhai Lubman, who worked as a land surveyor for Baron Edmond de *Rothschild. He disliked the settlement's traditional way of life and moved to Rishon le-Zion, where he struggled together with others against the baron's paternalistic management of the new agricultural settlement. He was a founder of the Aguddat ha-Koremim ("The Vintners' Association"), which took over the supervision of the baron's wine cellars. For 16 years he was at intervals head of the local council of Rishon le-Zion. He wrote memoirs of his childhood and the early days of settlement in Ere? Israel entitled Mi-Sippurei ha-Rishonim le-?iyyon (1934) and Benei Dori (1946), as well as a monograph on Rishon le-Zion (1929).
bibliography:
J. ?urgin, Dov ?aviv-Lubman (Heb., 1942); D.A. Yanovsky, in: Mi-Sippurei ha-Rishonim le-?iyyon (1934), 3–8; D. Idelovitch, Rishon le-?iyyon (1941), 419–21.
[Yehuda Slutsky]