Chaim Zhitlowsky | |
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| Born | Chaim Zhitlowsky 19 April 1865 |
| Died | 6 May 1943 (aged 78) Calgary, Canada |
| Occupation(s) | Philosopher and writer |
| Known for | Founding Union of Russian Socialist Revolutionaries and Socialist Revolutionary Party in Russia |
Chaim Zhitlowsky (Yiddish: חײם זשיטלאָװסקי; Russian: Хаим Осипович Житловский) (April 19, 1865 – May 6, 1943) was a Jewish socialist, philosopher, social and political thinker, writer and literary critic born in Ushachy, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Usachy Raion, Vitebsk Region, Belarus).
He was a founding member of the Union of Russian Socialist Revolutionaries;[1] a founding member and theoretician of the Socialist Revolutionary Party in Russia,[2] and a key promoter of Yiddishism and Jewish Diaspora nationalism, which influenced the Jewish territorialist and nationalist movements. He was an advocate of Yiddish language, culture and was a vice-president of the Czernowitz Yiddish Language Conference of 1908, which declared Yiddish to be "a national language of the Jewish people."[3]
- ^ Frankel, Jonathan (8 November 1984). Prophecy And Politics: Socialism, Nationalism, And The Russian Jews, 1862–1917. Cambridge University Press. pp. 277–. ISBN 978-0-521-26919-3. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
- ^ Барталь, Исраэль; Лурье, Илья (2022-05-15). История еврейского народа в России. Том 2: От разделов Польши до падения Российской империи (in Russian). Litres. p. 356. ISBN 978-5-457-51755-4.
- ^ Bridger, David; Wolk, Samuel (1976). The New Jewish Encyclopedia. Behrman House, Inc. p. 536. ISBN 978-0-87441-120-1.