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| Smolenskin, Perez |
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(p r´ts sm ln´sk n) (KEY) , 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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