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LOTE 5:
Early letter from Ahad Ha'am. Odessa, 1897
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Early letter from Ahad Ha'am. Odessa, 1897
Handwritten and signature letter of 'Ahad Ha'am' regarding biography which was to be published in his journal 'Hashiloach''. Postcard. Odessa, June 25, 1897. Hebrew.
In his letter, Ahad Ha'am apologizes for not being able to fulfill the request of his author and give him a fee for a biography that was due to be published, on Hashiloach' that he is not the sole owner of the newspaper, adding that the newspaper budget is not as big as others tend to think.
In 1896, the first issue of the central and most important Hebrew periodical in the 19th and 20th Centuries of Shiloach, or in the accent of Ahad Ha'am the "shelach". He published in the framework of the company Ahiasaf, financed by Kalonymus Ze'ev Wissotzky, the great tea manufacturer and an avid supporter of Ahad Ha'am who insisted that he be editor-in-chief of the monthly. The system was usually in Odessa or Warsaw. In the first issue of the new journal Ahad Ha'am declared: "The purpose of the journal is to know ourselves, to understand our lives and to establish our future wisely, " and was attended by the best intellectuals and writers of the period. In the magazine, Ahad Ha'am expressed his Zionist approach, which advocated the training of hearts as a central goal of the national movement and to make the Land of Israel a cultural spiritual center for the Jewish people. The Shiloach came out from 1896 to 1909.
[1] Postcard. Very good condition.
