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Avraham Cholodenko
Avraham Cholodenko (1871 – May 25, 1942) was a Zionist leader, educator, and one of the Revival of the Hebrew language, first revivers of Hebrew as a modern language in the Russian Empire. Cholodenko was a senior figure in the General Zionists liberal party and played a major role in the founding of Tel Aviv's Great Synagogue (Tel Aviv), Great Synagogue and Oneg Shabbat (joy of sabbath) cultural center—together with his friend, the prominent poet and intellectual Hayim Nahman Bialik. Biography Cholodenko, son of Yacov and Hinda, was born in the impoverished village of Sytniaky in the district of Kiev of the Russian Empire (today's Ukraine). His mother died in childbirth, and as a newborn he was sent to the town of Ivankiv, where he was raised by his well-off uncle. A child of a traditional Jewish family influenced by the Haskalah movement, he studied the Hebrew Bible and excelled in Hebrew language and in both Jewish and European literature. His academic talents reached the ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughly one-sixth of the world's landmass, making it the list of largest empires, third-largest empire in history, behind only the British Empire, British and Mongol Empire, Mongol empires. It also Russian colonization of North America, colonized Alaska between 1799 and 1867. The empire's 1897 census, the only one it conducted, found a population of 125.6 million with considerable ethnic, linguistic, religious, and socioeconomic diversity. From the 10th to 17th centuries, the Russians had been ruled by a noble class known as the boyars, above whom was the tsar, an absolute monarch. The groundwork of the Russian Empire was laid by Ivan III (), who greatly expanded his domain, established a centralized Russian national state, and secured inde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
