Gregoire Belkowsky
Gregoire Zwi Hirsch Belkowsky (* 1865 in Odessa , † 1948 in Tel Aviv ) was a Russian lawyer. From 1893 to 1897 he was a law and economics professor at the University of Sofia and was one of the first Zionists in Bulgaria.
Since 1891 he was in contact with Birnbaum's early Zionists in Vienna , then joined Herzl and helped prepare the first Zionist congress , at which he gave a lecture on the situation of the Jews in Bulgaria .
He was a member of the Grand Action Committee from 1897 to 1910, and later a leading figure in the opposition on the Uganda question . In 1897 he lived in Paris, and since 1898 back in Russia.
He also carried out Zionist propaganda during the Russian Revolution and was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1924 and went to Palestine.
Works
- mi zichronotai (1940, memoir)
literature
- Herman Rosenthal and S. Janovsky: Belkovsky, Grégoire . In: The Jewish Encyclopedia .
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| SURNAME | Belkowsky, Gregoire |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Belkowsky, Gregoire Zwi Hirsch (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian lawyer, law and economics professor and Zionist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Odessa |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1948 |
| Place of death | Tel Aviv |