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Moshe Leib Lilienblum ( Yiddish: משה לייב לילינבלום; October 22, 1843, in Keidany, Kovno Governorate – February 12, 1910, in Odesa) was a Jewish scholar and author.
Portrait and summary biography of Mosheh Leib Lilienblum on a postcard, part of a series on Hebrew writers and intellectuals (Stanisławów: Verlag Hatchijah, 1910). (YIVO)
Moshe Leib Lilienblum. Moshe Leib Lilienblum: born Keidan 1843, died Odessa 1910. He was an author and publicist, one of the founders of Hibbat Tzion (Lovers of Zion) 1, and in his youth had a yeshiva education. At thirteen he was betrothed to a young girl and moved to the house of his father-in-law in Vilkomir (today Ukmergė).
A scholar and author born in Lithuania, Lilienblum embraced the Hibbat Zion (Lovers of Zion) movement in Russia after the pogroms of 1881 and served as secretary of an Odesa committee on Palestine settlement. His memoir “Sins of My Youth” detailed his shaky faith as an Eastern European Jew.
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Moses Leib Lilienblum began as a moderate religious reformer but later became absorbed by social problems, and in Mishnat Elisha ben Abuyah (1878; “The Opinions of Elisha ben Abuyah”) he preached Jewish socialism.
LILIENBLUM, MOSES LEIB (1843–1910), Hebrew writer, critic, and political journalist. Born in Kedainiai, near Kovno, Lilienblum was one of the leaders of the Haskalah in its last period and a leader of Hibbat Zion.
