''Ha-Asif'' () was a

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-language yearly journal, published in

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by Naḥum Sokolow. Its first volume appeared in 1884; it continued to appear regularly every year until 1889, when the fifth volume came out at the end instead of at the beginning of the Jewish year. The sixth and last volume appeared in 1893. The ''Sefer Zikkaron'', a

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of contemporary Jewish authors, was published as a supplement to the fifth volume of ''Ha-Asif''. The six volumes of ''Ha-Asif'' form an important collection of literary, historical, biographical, and popular scientific

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s. They also contain

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, sketches, and

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s, while its yearly reviews, obituaries, and descriptions of Russo-Jewish communities are of great value to Jewish biography and

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. Among its contributors were

Sholem Aleichem Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich (; May 13, 1916), better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem (Yiddish language, Yiddish and , also spelled in Yiddish orthography#Reform and standardization, Soviet Yiddish, ; Russian language, Russian and ), ...

Salomon Buber Salomon (or Solomon) Buber (2 February 1827 – 28 December 1906) was a Jewish Galician scholar and editor of Hebrew works. He is especially remembered for his editions of Midrash and other medieval Jewish manuscripts, and for the pioneering res ...

, Joseph Hayyim Caro, Abraham Shalom Friedberg, David Frischmann,

Judah Leib Gordon Judah Leib Gordon (, ; December 7, 1830 – September 16, 1892), also known as Leon Gordon, was among the most important Hebrew poets of the Haskalah. Biography Gordon was born to well-to-do Jewish parents who owned a hotel in Vilnius. As a p ...

Avrom Ber Gotlober Avrom Ber Gotlober (; 14 January 1811 – 12 April 1899), also known by the pen names Abag () and Mahalalel (), was a Russian Maskilic writer, poet, playwright, historian, journalist and educator. His first collection was published in 1835. B ...

Abraham Harkavy Abraham (Albert) Harkavy (also known as Abraham Eliahu Harkavy or Abraham Eliyahu Harkavy, , ; 17 October 1835 – 15 March 1919) was a Russian historian and orientalist. Biography Harkavy was born in 1835 to a Lithuanian Jewish family in Na ...

Isaac Kaminer Isaac ben Abraham Kaminer (, ''Yitsḥak ben Avraham Kaminer''; 1834 – 30 March 1901) was a Russian-Jewish Hebrew-language poet, satirist, and physician. Biography Isaac ben Abraham Kaminer was born in May 1834 in Levkiev in right-bank Ukraine ...

Salomon Mandelkern Salomon Mandelkern (; ; pseudonym ''Mindaloff'') was a Russian lexicographer, poet and author. Early life Mandelkern was born to a Russian Jewish family. He was educated as a Talmudist. After his father's death he went to Dubno (he was then fourt ...

Mordechai Tzvi Maneh Mordechai Tzvi Maneh (; 5 May 1859 – 15 October 1886), also known by the pen name Ha-Metzayer (; also an acronym of , 'The young man Mordechai Tzvi, native of Radoshkevich'), was a Russian Hebrew lyric poet, translator, and artist. Life and w ...

, I. L. Peretz,

Joseph Elijah Triwosch Joseph Elijah Triwosch (; 18 January 1856 – 1940) was Russian Hebrew writer, poet, translator, and biblical commentator. Triwosch was born in Vilna, and settled at Grodno as a teacher of Hebrew and Russian. His literary activity began in 1873, ...

, and

Isaac Hirsch Weiss Isaac (Isaak) Hirsch Weiss, also Eisik Hirsch Weiss () (9 February 1815 – 1 June 1905), was an Jews of Austria, Austrian Talmudist and historian of literature born at Velké Meziříčí, Groß Meseritsch, Habsburg Moravia. After having recei ...

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