Shmaryahu Levin
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Dr. Shmaryahu Levin was a Jewish Zionist
activist in the Russian Empire
, then in Germany
and in the United States
, member of the first elected Russian Parliament
in 1906-1907.
He was elected to the 1906 First Duma elections
after an electoral agreement made by the General Jewish Labour Bund with the Lithuanian Labourers' Party (Trudoviks
).
This Zionist activist left Russia for Germany immediately after his Russian parliamentary mandate, then emigrated to America. Since 1908 he began advocating for the creation of the Haifa Technion.
Zionism
Zionism is a Jewish political movement that, in its broadest sense, has supported the self-determination of the Jewish people in a sovereign Jewish national homeland. Since the establishment of the State of Israel, the Zionist movement continues primarily to advocate on behalf of the Jewish state...
activist in the Russian Empire
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...
, then in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
and in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, member of the first elected Russian Parliament
State Duma of the Russian Empire
The State Duma of the Russian Empire was a legislative assembly in the late Russian Empire, which met in the Taurida Palace in St. Petersburg. It was convened four times between 1906 and the collapse of the Empire in 1917.-History:...
in 1906-1907.
He was elected to the 1906 First Duma elections
Russian legislative election, 1906
Legislative elections were held in the Russian Empire in March 1906. At stake were the 478 seats in the State Duma of the Russian Empire, the legislative assembly. Election for the First State Duma, a session which only ran from April 27 to July 21 1906, returned a significant bloc of moderate...
after an electoral agreement made by the General Jewish Labour Bund with the Lithuanian Labourers' Party (Trudoviks
Trudoviks
The Trudoviks were a moderate Labour party in early 20th Century Russia...
).
This Zionist activist left Russia for Germany immediately after his Russian parliamentary mandate, then emigrated to America. Since 1908 he began advocating for the creation of the Haifa Technion.
External links
- Portrait photo, undated. Ghetto Fighters' HouseGhetto Fighters' HouseThe Ghetto Fighters' House , full name, Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum and Study Center, was founded in 1949 by members of Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot, a community of Holocaust survivors, among them fighters of the ghetto undergrounds and partisan units...
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