Abraham Ludvipol

Abraham Ludvipol
Abraham Ludvipol
	Abraham Ludvipol, c. 1912
Born	October or November 1865; Zvil, Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire,
Died	May 3, 1921 (aged 57); Tel Aviv-Yafo, Mandatory Palestine
Resting place	Trumpeldor Cemetery
Pen name	Ha-Medinai (המדינאי)
Occupation	Translator, journalist, editor
Language	Hebrew, Yiddish, French

Abraham Ludvipol (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם לוּדְוִיפּוֹל; October or November 1865 – 3 May 1921) was a Ukrainian-born Hebrew journalist, translator, and Zionist activist.

Biography[edit]

Ludvipol was born in the shtetl of Zvil in the Volhynian Governorate of the Russian Empire, a descendant of Rabbis Pinchas of Koretz, Elimelech of Ostropol and Yechezkel Landau. He received a traditional Hasidic education, but in his youth was exposed to the writings of the Haskalah, which he read in secret. After his apostasy was Ludvipol, his planned marriage was annulled. Ludypol served in the army as a regimental clerk, and upon his release settled in Odessa, where he joined the Hovevei Zion movement.^{[citation needed]}

Ludvipol left to Palestine in 1890, but his entry into the country was denied by the Ottoman authorities. After several months working at a port in Alexandria, he moved to France and studied journalism at the Sorbonne . During this period he wrote a series of articles entitled "Letters from Paris" for Ha-Melitz. He was permitted entry to Palestine in 1897, where he wrote a series of memoirs for publication in the periodical Ha-Tsfira, but returned to Europe shortly thereafter for the First Zionist Congress.^{[citation needed]}

Ludvipol wrote for the major Hebrew and Zionist newspapers of his time, including Ha-Melitz, Ha-Tsfira, Ha-Dor [he], Ha-Shiloaḥ, Luach Achiasaf [he], and Die Welt. He was active in the campaign for the release of Alfred Dreyfus during the Dreyfus affair,^[1]^[2] during which he founded the French monthly L'Écho Sioniste (Paris, 1899–1905), and was an editor of the Odessa newspaper Oddeskii listok [ru]. In 1903 he moved to Warsaw to serve as editor-in-chief of Ha-Tzofeh [he].

He returned to Palestine in 1907 to establish a Hebrew newspaper under the auspices of Hovevei Zion. In late 1911, Ludvipol was hired to direct the Press Bureau of the Zionist Organization's Palestine Office.^[3] He died at Tel Aviv-Yafo in May 1921.

References[edit]

Kohen, Yankev (21 February 2016). "Avrom (Abraham) Ludvipol". Yiddish Leksikon. Translated by Fogel, Joshua. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
Kouts, Gideon (2013). חדשות וקורות הימים (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press. pp. 132–154.
Kressel, Getzel (2007). "Ludvipol, Abraham". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.

Schwarzfuchs, Simon (1998). "Abraham Ludvipol, intellectuel juif d'Europe Orientale, et l'affaire Dreyfus". In Koren, Roselyne; Michman, Dan (eds.). Les intellectuels face à l'affaire Dreyfus alors et aujourd'hui: perception et impact de l'affaire en France et à l'étranger (in French). Paris: L’Harmattan. pp. 121–132. ISBN 9782738460257.
Tidhar, David, ed. (1947). "Abraham Ludvipol". Encyclopedia of the Founders and Builders of Israel. Vol. 2. p. 673.

Citations[edit]

^ Kouts, Gideon (2003). "He is Innocent! Or is He? The Response of the Jewish Press in Europe and Eretz Yisrael to the Initial Phase of the Dreyfus Affair". Kesher (in Hebrew). 33. Tel Aviv University: 41–53. ISSN 0792-0113. JSTOR 23919083.
^ Lang, Yosef (2008). "The Dreyfus Affair in the Hebrew Press in Palestine (1894–1906)". Kesher (in Hebrew). 37. Tel Aviv University: 39–55. ISSN 0792-0113.
^ Gribetz, Jonathan Marc (2014). Defining Neighbors: Religion, Race, and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter. Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World. Princeton University Press. p. 196. ISBN 978-1-4008-5265-9.

[1] Kouts, Gideon (2003). "He is Innocent! Or is He? The Response of the Jewish Press in Europe and Eretz Yisrael to the Initial Phase of the Dreyfus Affair". Kesher (in Hebrew). 33. Tel Aviv University: 41–53. ISSN 0792-0113. JSTOR 23919083.

[2] Lang, Yosef (2008). "The Dreyfus Affair in the Hebrew Press in Palestine (1894–1906)". Kesher (in Hebrew). 37. Tel Aviv University: 39–55. ISSN 0792-0113.

[Gribetz_2014_p._196-3] Gribetz, Jonathan Marc (2014). Defining Neighbors: Religion, Race, and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter. Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World. Princeton University Press. p. 196. ISBN 978-1-4008-5265-9.

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