Person

Gluecksohn, Moses Josef

1878–1939

GLUECKSOHN (Glickson), MOSHE (1878–1939), Hebrew journalist and Zionist leader. Born in Cholynka, near Grodno, Gluecksohn began his Zionist activity in Western Europe among Jewish students. He was a delegate to the Sixth Zionist Congress (1903) and later congresses, joining the opposition to the Uganda Scheme. From 1908 to 1914 he was the secretary of the Ḥovevei Zion committee in Odessa. In 1910 Gluecksohn began to publish articles in Hebrew in Haolam and later also in Ha-Shilo'aḤ. After the February Revolution, 1917, he edited the Moscow Hebrew daily Ha-Am. After the Bolshevik Revolution he left for Palestine (autumn 1919). First editor of editor of the Ha'aretz newspaper