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LEON GORDON

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 254 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LEON
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GORDON  , originally
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JUDAH LOEB
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BEN
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ASHER (1831–1892),
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Russian-Jewish poet and novelist (
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Hebrew), was
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born at Wilna in 1831 and died at St
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Petersburg in 1892 . He took a leading
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part in the
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modern revival of the Hebrew
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language and culture . His satires did much to rouse the Russian
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Jews to a new sense of the reality of
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life, and
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Gordon was the apostle of enlightenment in the Ghettos . His Hebrew
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style is classical and pure . His poems were collected in four volumes, Kol
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Shire Yehudah (St Petersburg, 1883–1884); his novels in Kol Kithbe Yehuda (
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Odessa, x889) . For his
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works see Jewish Quarterly
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Review, xviii . 437 seq .

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