12018-07-26T20:23:51-07:00Zoë Wilkinson Saldaña6beb73a90c38e77367b9737ee8e808917759a78e310403plain2020-08-03T07:06:42-07:00Ushachy Raion, BelarusApril 19, 1865May 6, 1943224Calgary, CanadaIsabella Buzynski4c5090420af98824ad786b6dac1f314b9e9f95a8Haim Zhitlovsky (1865-1943) was born in the small town of Ushachy, Belarus. Although originally an advocate of Jewish assimilation, after the 1881 anti-Jewish pogroms Zhitlovsky championed the cause for Jewish national equality and social and political rights, which became known as Diaspora Nationalism. In 1908 he settled in New York and founded a publishing house, issuing the monthly Dos Naye Leben, which exercised great influence on Yiddish culture, literature, and the development of free socialist thought.