Peretz Smolenskin

Peretz Smolenskin, born in 1842 in Monastyrchtchina, in the governorate of Mogilev, to a family that had come from Smolensk, whence his name, received the education of the heder and the yeshiva: nearly five years among the rigorists of Shklov, then among the Hasidim. He learned Russian and German, lived in Odessa on Hebrew lessons, then settled in 1868 in Vienna, where he founded the journal Ha-Shahar, which he directed until his death and of which he was the main author. In it he defended Hebrew and national consciousness, and after 1881 he supported settlement in the land of Israel. He died of tuberculosis in Merano in 1885.

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• Novelהתועה בדרכי החייםPeretz Smolenskin · 1876not translated into EnglishLiterature