Berl katznelson biography of barack obama
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Berl Katznelson
Jewish intellectual (–)
Berl Katznelson (Hebrew: ברל כצנלסון&#;, 25 January – 12 August ) was one of the intellectual founders of Labor Zionism and was instrumental to the establishment of the modern state of Israel.
Berl katznelson biography of barack obama
He was also the editor of Davar, the first daily newspaper of the Histadrut.
Biography
Katznelson was born to a Lithuanian Jewish family in Babruysk, Russian Empire (nowadays Belarus), the son of a member of Hovevei Zion.
He dreamed of settling in the Jewish homeland from an early age. In Russia, he was a librarian in a Hebrew-Yiddish library and taught Hebrew literature and Jewish history. He made aliyah to Ottoman Palestine in , where he worked in agriculture and took an active role in organizing workers' federations based on the idea of "common work, life and aspirations."[1]
Together with his cousin, Yitzhak Tabenkin, Katznelson was one of the founding fathers of the workers union, the Histadrut[2] founded in i