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See also:PEREZ [See also:PETER] See also:SMOLENSKIN (1842-1885) , See also:Russian Jewish novelist, was See also:born near See also:Mogilev (See also:Russia) in 1842; he died at See also:Meran (See also:Austria) in 1885 . His See also:story is the Odyssey of an erring son of the See also:Ghetto . He joined and See also:left the opposite parties of the rationalists and the mystics, and followed a variety of See also:precarious occupations . He settled in See also:Odessa, where he familiarized himself with several See also:European See also:languages, and became an antinomian in See also:religion, though he never left the Jewish See also:fold . He became the rallying-point for the revolt of See also:young Jewry against medievalism, the See also:leader, too, in a new See also:movement towards Jewish nationalism . His See also:Hebrew periodical, the See also:Dawn (Ha-shahar), exercised a powerful See also:influence in both directions . Shortly before his See also:death he became deeply interested in schemes for the colonization of See also:Palestine, and was associated with Laurence See also:Oliphant . See also:Smolenskin was the first to dissociate Messianic ideals from theological concomitants . Smolenskin's See also:literary fame is due to his Hebrew novels . He may be termed the Jewish See also:Thackeray . In See also:style and method his See also:work resembles that of the See also:English novelist . There is little doubt but that Smolenskin, had he written in any See also:language but Hebrew, would be regarded as one of the See also:great novelists of the 19th See also:century . Of his novels only the best need be named here . A Wanderer on the Path of See also:Life (Ha-Welt be-darkhe ha-Ijayim) is the story of an See also:orphan, See also:Joseph, who passes through every phase of Ghetto life; the work (1868—1g7o) is an autobiography, the See also:form of which was sug-gested by See also:David Copperfield, but there is no similarity to the manner of See also:Dickens . More perfect in See also:execution is the See also:Burial of the See also:Ass (Qeburath ,clamor) which appeared in 1874 . A third novel, The See also:Inheritance (Ha-yerushah), issued in 188o-1881, depicts life in Odessa and See also:Rumania . See N . Slouschz, The Renascence of Hebrew Literature, chs. ix., x., xi . (I . |
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