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This is the first full-length biography of Judah Leib Gordon (1830-92), the most important Hebrew poet of the 19th century, and one of the pivotal intellectual and cultural figures in Russian Jewry. His personal story is a fascinating drama that both symbolizes and summarizes the cultural and political challenges facing Russian Jewry at a crucial time in its history: challenges that remain pertinent and controversial today. This is the first full-length biography of Judah Leib Gordon (1830-92), one of the pivotal intellectual and cultural figures in Russian Jewry, and the most important Hebrew poet of the 19th century. His personal story is a fascinating drama that both symbolizes and summarizes the cultural and political challenges facing Russian Jewry at a crucial time in its history, challenges that remain pertinent and controversial today.

Poets, Hebrew --- Haskalah --- Ḥibbat Zion. --- Ḥibat Tsiyon --- Ḥoveve Tsiyon --- Ḥovevei Zion --- Lovers of Zion --- Zionism --- Jewish Enlightenment --- Enlightenment --- Judaism --- Liberalism (Religion) --- Wissenschaft des Judentums (Movement) --- Hebrew poets --- Gordon, Judah Leib, --- Gordon, Judah Loeb, --- Gordon, Leon, --- Yalag, --- Gordon, Yehudah Leb, --- Gordon, Y. L., --- Gordon, J. Leon, --- Gordon, Yehudah Leib, --- Gordon, Judah Löb ben Asher, --- Gordon, Judah Loeb ben Asher, --- גאָרדאָן, יהודה ליב --- גארדאן, יהודא לייב --- גארדאן, יהודה ליב, --- גארדאן, יהודה לייב, --- גארדאן, י. ל., --- גארדאן, י.ל --- גורדון, יהודה ליב --- גורדון, יהודה ליב ־ יל״ג --- גורדון, יהודה ליב, --- גורדון, יהודה לייב, --- גורדון, י. ל. --- גורדון, י. ל., --- Hibbat Zion.