1828 - 1916. Haim Nissim Amzlag was a Jewish businessman and community leader during the Yishuv period. He was born in Gibraltar to a...

1873 - 1934. Haim Nahman Bialik was a Jewish poet who wrote in Hebrew and Yiddish and was one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew poetry....

1830 - 1892. Born in Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire , Judah Leib Gordon was among the most influential Hebrew poets. He is...

1863 - 1941. Menachem Ussishkin was a Zionist leader born in Belarus. Starting in 1878, he developed a passion for reading contemporary...

Hovevei Zion is a collective name for Zionist associations founded in Eastern Europe at the end of the 19th century. These associations...

1843 - 1910. Moshe Yehuda Leib Lilienblum was a journalist and writer who wrote in Hebrew, Russian, and Yiddish. As a young adult, he...