1. Aleksander Ossypovich Zederbaum was a Polish-Russian Jewish journalist who wrote primarily in Hebrew.
12 Facts About Aleksander Zederbaum
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Aleksander Zederbaum was founder and editor of Ha-Melitz, and other periodicals published in Yiddish and Russian.
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Aleksander Zederbaum succeeded in acquiring a knowledge of Hebrew literature, and of the Russian, Polish, and German languages.
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Aleksander Zederbaum married in Lublin, and in 1840 left for Odessa, then a centre of the Haskalah movement.
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Aleksander Zederbaum obtained there a commercial position, made the acquaintance of the Maskilim of the city, and in his leisure hours continued to work for his self-education.
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In 1860 Aleksander Zederbaum succeeded in obtaining the government's permission to publish Ha-Melitz, the first Hebrew periodical issued in Russia; and three years later he began publishing the pioneer Yiddish journal Kol Mevasser.
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Aleksander Zederbaum was granted permission to do his own printing, and to publish, besides Ha-Melitz, a Russian weekly, which enjoyed only a short existence, as did the "Razsvyet," which he started a few years later.
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In 1881 he founded the Volksblatt, a daily Yiddish journal which existed for eight years, although Aleksander Zederbaum was its editor for only a few years.
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In 1884 Aleksander Zederbaum invited rising Yiddish author Mordecai Spector to join him as an assistant editor of the paper, after publishing his breakthrough novel Der Yidisher Muzhik.
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Aleksander Zederbaum was the author of "Keter Kehunnah" and "Ben ha-Metsarim," but neither of these works met with any success.
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Aleksander Zederbaum's chief significance lies in the fact that he was a champion of the Haskalah.
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Aleksander Zederbaum exercised considerable influence in government circles, and it was due to his intercession that an impartial judgment was obtained for many Jewish families accused of blood libel in Kutaisi; he disclosed the ignorance of the Russian anti-Semite Hippolytus Lutostansky, whose pamphlets threatened to become dangerous for the Russian Jews.