Professor Joseph Klausner, professor of Modern Literature at the Hebrew, University, has just reached the age of 60.
Professor Klausner, Hebrew scholar, was born in August, 1874, in the Vilna, Poland, but he studied at the Yeshivah of Odessa, and after graduating from Heidelberg, he returned there, and threw himself into the movement for the revival of Hebrew language and literature. He joined Achad Ha’am, and was one of the closest collaborators in his “Hashiloah,” of which he was editor during the time it appeared in Palestine.
He was a member of the Odessa Committee, and a prominent spokesman of the Russian Zionists at the Congresses.
His lectures on Jewish history delivered before the war at the Odessa Yeshivah have been published in several volumes. Under the Kerensky regime in Russia, he was appointed Professor of the History of the East at Odessa University. When the Bolsheviks came into power, he left Russia and went to Palestine. He was lecturer in Jewish History at the Teachers Seminary in Jerusalem.
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