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111PETROGRAD CONFERENCE — PETROGRAD CONFERENCE, seventh national conference of the Russian Zionists and the first after the February 1917 Revolution. It opened on June 6, 1917. Five hundred and fifty two delegates, representing 140,000 shekel holders from 680 cities and… …
112PO'ALEI ZION — PO ALEI ZION, movement that tried to base itself upon the Jewish proletariat whose ideology consisted of a combination of Zionism and socialism. Attempts to combine Jewish nationalism and Zionism with socialism were made by zhitlovsky and syrkin… …
113REVISIONISTS, ZIONIST — (full name: Union of Zionists Revisionists; abbr. Hebrew name, Ha Ẓohar; later New Zionist Organization), movement of maximalist political Zionists founded and led by Vladimir jabotinsky . In the later 1920s and in the 1930s the Revisionists… …
114RIVLIN, YOSEF YIẒḤAK — (1837–1896), leader of the Jewish community in Jerusalem. Born in Jerusalem, Rivlin was a fourth generation descendant of Hillel Rivlin (see rivlin ), family the leader of the disciples of the Vilna Gaon who settled in Ereẓ Israel in the early… …
115ROTENSTREICH, NATHAN — (1914–1993), Israeli philosopher and author. Born in Sambor, Poland, the second son of fischel rotenstreich , a distinguished leader of Polish Jewry, Nathan Rotenstreich joined the Zionist movement in his early youth. He immigrated to Ereẓ Israel …
116SCHLESINGER, AKIVA JOSEPH — (1837–1922), one of the first visionaries of modern Zionism. Born in Pressburg, Schlesinger was a graduate of Hungarian yeshivot and a student of Kabbalah. He was one of the spokesmen of the extreme religious elements of the Ḥatam Sofer (see… …
117SHERMAN, ARCHIE — (1911– ), British property developer and philanthropist. Sherman was born and educated in Cardiff, S. Wales. In 1939 he moved to London, where he earned a reputation as an expert on shop properties and, after a successful career in real estate,… …
118SUPRASKY, YEHOSHUA — (1879–1948), General Zionist leader in Ereẓ Israel. Born in Goniadz, Bialystok district, Suprasky engaged in trade and industry. He was a delegate to the Zionist Conference in Minsk (1902), was a member of the Zionist central committee in Russia …
