Shmaryahu Levin
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Shmaryahu Levin (Template:Langx; born 1867 in Svislach, Minsk Governorate; died 9 June 1935, Haifa), was a Jewish Zionist activist. He was a member of the first elected Russian Parliament in 1906.
Biography
Levin, originally from Svisloch, Belorussia, became involved with Hovevei Zion during his early years. A follower of Ahad HaAm, as a young man, he and Leo Motzkin created the union of Jewish students in Russia during their time at university in Berlin. He wrote for Hebrew publications like Ha-Shilo'ah and Yiddish ones such as Der Yud and Der Fraynd.[1]
Shmaryahu Levin served as a crown rabbi in the towns of Grodno (1896Template:Ndash97) and Ekaterinoslav (Dnipropetrovsk) from 1898 to 1904.[2]
At the Sixth Zionist Congress in 1903, Levin was a prominent opponent of the Uganda Scheme. He also co-founded the League for the Attainment of Equal Rights for the Jewish People in Russia in 1905 and served on its central board.[3] In 1906, Levin was elected to represent the Jewish National List from Vilna in the inaugural Russian Duma.[1]
Shortly after the First Duma's dissolution, Levin escaped from Russia for Berlin. He was chosen to be a member of the Tenth Zionist Congress (1911). He participated in the activities of the Hilfsverein der deutschen Juden in Germany and helped to found a technical university in Haifa. He encouraged American Jews to support this endeavor.[1] However, together with Ahad Ha-Am and J. Tschlenow, Levin resigned from the Technion board of governors after their proposal to switch to teaching in Hebrew was turned down.[3]
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In the 1920s, Levin was a representative of the World Zionist Organization and director of the Information Department of Keren Hayesod.[4]
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External links
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- Central Zionist Archives Personal papers of Shmaryahu Levin. The notation of the record group is A20.
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- 1867 births
- 1935 deaths
- People from Pukhavichy district
- People from Bobruysky Uyezd
- Belarusian Jews
- Russian Constitutional Democratic Party members
- Members of the 1st State Duma of the Russian Empire
- Jewish activists
- Belarusian Zionists
- Ashkenazi Jews in Mandatory Palestine
- Burials at Trumpeldor Cemetery
- Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums alumni