YEHOSHUA AYZENSHTADT (BARZILAI) (August 14, 1855-May 2,
1918)
Born in Kletsk (Klieck), Byelorussia. One of the first members of Chovevei
tsiyon (Lovers of Zion), a cofounder with Ahad Ha’am of the cultural
Zionist organization Bnei Moshe. From
1887 he was living with occasional breaks in Palestine. He was the director of the branch of the Colonial
Bank in Jerusalem. He wrote articles and
correspondences from Palestine in the most important Hebrew periodicals of his
day. In Yiddish: Bay der muter erd
(In the motherland) (Warsaw, 1919), 45 pp.
He died in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Sources:
D. Tidhar, Entsiklopedyah leḥalutse hayishuv uvonav (Encyclopedia of
the founders and builders of Israel), vol. 1 (Tel Aviv, 1947), p. 150; Algemeyne entsiklopedye (General encyclopedia), vol.
2; Y. Paleskin, in Tsukunft (Januray 1919).
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