12018-07-26T20:24:22-07:00Zoë Wilkinson Saldaña6beb73a90c38e77367b9737ee8e808917759a78e310403plain2020-08-04T17:09:37-07:00Smolensk Oblast, RussiaJanuary 15, 1905February 27, 1905104Merano, ItalyIsabella Buzynski4c5090420af98824ad786b6dac1f314b9e9f95a8Peretz Smolenskin (1842–1885) was a maskilic writer. He was founder and editor of the Hebrew journal Ha-Shaḥar (The Dawn), as well as a novelist and short-story writer. Perets Smolenskin’s popular writingd influenced the consolidation of a nationalist Haskalah movement and Zionist ideology.