Shmaryahu Levin


Shmaryahu Levin, was a Jewish Zionist activist. He was a member of the first elected Russian Parliament for the Constitutional Democratic Party in 1906.

Biography

Shmaryahu Levin served as a crown rabbi in the towns of Grodno and Ekaterinoslav from 1898 to 1904.
He was elected to the 1906 First Duma.
Levin left Russia for Germany immediately after the dispersal of the First Duma, then emigrated to America. From 1908 he began advocating for the creation of the Haifa Technion. He was known as an outstanding Yiddish orator.

Zionist activism

Levin was a representative of the World Zionist Organization and director of the Information Department of Keren Hayesod.

Awards and recognition

, an affluent Tel Aviv suburb, is named for him.