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| | Virtual Excursion on Jewish Odessa - The Gates to Zion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | Leon Pinsker, Abraham Gruenberg and Menahem Ussishkin all served as chairmen of the society, while the prominent writer, publicist and philosopher, Asher Hirsh Ginsberg, known under the pseudonym of Ahad Ha'Am, was among those who signed the charter of the society. |
 | | Leon Semyonovich Pinsker (1821-1891), public activist and first chairman of the Odessa Palestine Committee, was born in Tamoshpol in Ukraine, but grew up in Odessa after his father, Simha Pinsker, a teacher and archeologist, moved to the city. |
 | | Pinsker served in military hospitals during the Crimean War of 1854, was involved in the creation of the first Jewish magazine in Russian, Rassvet ("Dawn"), and in the organization of Jewish charitable societies. |
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