10 Facts About Aaron Liebermann

Aaron Samuel Liebermann was born in Luna, a shtetl in the province of Grodno, Russia.

Aaron Liebermann's father, Eliezer Dov Liebermann, was a maskilic author and scholar.

Aaron Liebermann's family moved to Bialystok and from there to Suvalk, where Liebermann received his early education.

Aaron Liebermann graduated from the Vilna Rabbinical Seminary with a teacher's diploma in 1867, and returned to Suvalk, where he was appointed secretary of the community and teacher.

Aaron Liebermann began studies at the Technological Institute of St Petersburg in 1870.

Aaron Liebermann was appointed Secretary and drew up the statutes of the Union, which he composed in classical Hebrew and Yiddish.

Aaron Liebermann formed and led a group of authors who shared his views, such as Ludvig Levin Jacobson, Moshe Kamyonski, Isaac Kaminer, and Tzvi ha-Kohen Scherschewski.

Aaron Liebermann returned to London after his release in January 1880, his mental balance deeply affected by prison life.

Aaron Liebermann contributed several articles to Johann Most's journal Freiheit and, together with Morris Winchevsky, established the Jewish Workingmen's Benefit and Educational Society.

Aaron Liebermann offered his services to the terrorist organization Narodnaya Volya, but was rejected for being temperamentally unsuitable.