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See also:LEON See also:GORDON , originally See also:JUDAH LOEB See also:BEN See also:ASHER (1831–1892), See also:Russian-Jewish poet and novelist (See also:Hebrew), was See also:born at Wilna in 1831 and died at St See also:Petersburg in 1892 . He took a leading See also:part in the See also:modern revival of the Hebrew See also:language and culture . His satires did much to rouse the Russian See also:Jews to a new sense of the reality of See also:life, and See also:Gordon was the apostle of enlightenment in the Ghettos . His Hebrew See also:style is classical and pure . His poems were collected in four volumes, Kol See also:Shire Yehudah (St Petersburg, 1883–1884); his novels in Kol Kithbe Yehuda (See also:Odessa, x889) . For his See also:works see Jewish Quarterly See also:Review, xviii . 437 seq . |
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