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Zalman (Rubashov) Shazar.
The great scholar Gershom Scholem once said of the Zionist writer, activist, and editor Zalman Rubashov that he was “a Marxist Zionist, but he was on good terms with God.” Reviewing a new biography of Rubashov—who later, as Zalman Shazar, became the president of Israel—Allan Arkush writes:
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Zalman (Rubashov) Shazar.
The great scholar Gershom Scholem once said of the Zionist writer, activist, and editor Zalman Rubashov that he was “a Marxist Zionist, but he was on good terms with God.” Reviewing a new biography of Rubashov—who later, as Zalman Shazar, became the president of Israel—Allan Arkush writes:
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