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Lilienblum, Moses Leib (1843–1910)
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Russian Hebrew writer, critic, and political journalist. He was born in Kėdainiai, near Kovno. He was initially attracted to the Haskalah and encouraged religious reform, but in his autobiography, Hattot Neurim (1876), he criticized the impracticality of the Haskalah movement and expressed his socialist ideas. After the pogroms of 1881 he became an advocate of Zionism and a leader and ideologist of Hibbat Zion; he published articles in Hebrew, Yiddish, and Russian. ... log in or subscribe to read full text
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