Education
Alexander was educated privately, and at an early age evinced a predilection for philology. During these years of wandering Harkavy studied, taught, and published his first journalistic and scholarly compositions.
Alexander was educated privately, and at an early age evinced a predilection for philology. During these years of wandering Harkavy studied, taught, and published his first journalistic and scholarly compositions.
In 1879 he went to Vilna, where he worked in the printing-office of the Romm Brothers. After the antisemitic pogroms of 1880 in Russia, Harkavy joined the Jewish Am Olam (Eternal People) back-to-the-land movement. Unlike Bilu, which directed its activities towards Palestine, Am Olam saw a Jewish future in the United States.
In 1882 Harkavy emigrated to the United States.
He was in Paris in 1885, New York in 1886, Montreal in 1887, Baltimore in 1889 and back in New York in 1890. In February a local branch of this organization was founded, with Harvaky as its president
Harkavy published in lithograph form one issue of a Yiddish newspaper, Die Zeit (The Time), the first Jewish newspaper in Canada. He also wrote the first history of the Jews in Canada.
Back in the United States he participated in the activities of the anarchist group Pionire der Frayhayt (Pioneers of Liberty).
In Baltimore he published Der Idisher Progres (Jewish Progress) in 1890. He was one of the contributors to the Jewish Encyclopedia. Harkavy also worked on translating Scripture into English, starting with Genesis (published 1915), then Psalms (1915), then The Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures According to the Masoretic Text (1916), with reprintings following.
lieutenant is partly due to Harkavy"s work that Yiddish today is regarded as a language.
His Yiddish dictionaries show that its vocabulary is as ample as that of the average modern language, and that, if lacking in technical terms, it is richer in idiomatic and characteristic expressions. East. 33; J. Doctorate. East.
Kenyon Zimmer, “THE WHOLE WORLD Instruction Section OUR COUNTRY”: IMMIGRATION AND ANARCHISM Indiana THE UNITED STATES, 1885-1940, Dissertationsschrift University of Pittsburgh 2010, South. 78-81.
