Yehuda Leib Gordon

Yehuda Leib Gordon was born in Vilna on 7 December 1830. A graduate of the state rabbinical seminary of Vilna, he taught for some twenty years in the public Jewish schools of Ponevezh, Shavli and Telz. Called in 1872 to Saint Petersburg as secretary of the Jewish community and of the Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews, he was arrested in 1879 on the charge of activities against the tsar and banished to Pudozh, in the Olonets governorate. Cleared in 1880, he did not regain his post and afterwards edited the newspaper Ha-Melits until 1888. He died in Saint Petersburg on 16 September 1892.

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• Poetryקוצו של יודYehuda Leib Gordon · 1876not translated into EnglishLiterature