Vladimir Ionovich Tyomkin ( , - , ) - Jewish public and religious figure, official rabbi of Elisavetgrad from 1893 to 1917, from 1925 - the first president of the World Union of Zionist Revisionists.
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- 1 Biography
- 2 family
- 3 References
- 4 notes
Biography
Born into an educated Jewish merchant family in Elisavetgrad .
In 1886 he graduated from the Technological Institute in St. Petersburg , participated in the student revolutionary movement and in the nascent Palestinian movement, became an activist of the All-Russian Palestinian organization Hovevei Zion . After graduation, he returned to Elisavetgrad , where, as an engineer, he organized a Palestinian group. In 1884 , 1887 and 1889 he was elected a delegate to the first (constituent), second and third conferences of the Hovevei Zion in Katowice , Druskeniki and Vilna , respectively. In 1890 , at the Odessa constituent congress of the Society for Assistance to Jews - Farmers and Artisans in Syria and Palestine , he was sent as part of a delegation to study the Jewish colonies in these lands; until 1893, he headed the executive committee of the Palestinian movement - the Palestinian Authority in Jaffa . V. I. Temkin set forth his impressions of the trip in the article “Palestine and its Jewish Colonies” (collection “Zion”, then a separate publication, St. Petersburg, 1892).
In 1893 V.I. Tyomkin was approved by the executed rabbi of Elisavetgrad and remained in this position until the revolutionary events of 1917. He was elected a member of the All-Russian Rabbinical Commission under the chairmanship of the Chisinau rabbi Ide-Leib Tsirelson . From the very inception of the Zionist movement (1897) he was his activist, took part in Basel congresses, from the second congress (1898) he was a member of the executive committee of the World Zionist Organization. At the Fifth Congress, he sided with the Democratic Faction, led by the physician J. M. Bernstein-Kogan , and was in opposition to the Uganda Plan .
According to the memorial book “Year of the Voice of the South Yearbook” 1913, the city rabbi Yelisavetgrad, an engineer-technologist Vladimir Ionovich Tyomkin lived in his own house on the corner of Mirgorodskaya street and Banny lane. The office of the city rabbi was in the house of a cheap dining room on Preobrazhenskaya street.
After the February Revolution he was elected a member of the Constituent Assembly from the Kherson province [2] [3] , and in 1918 - a member of the Presidium of the Jewish National Council of Ukraine . In 1920 he moved to Berlin , where he was a member of the Central Committee of the Federation of Russian-Ukrainian Zionists, then he joined the movement of revisionist Zionism created by V.E. Zhabotinsky . After moving to Paris in 1924, he joined the editorial board of Dawn. In 1925 he was elected the first president of the World Union of Zionist Revisionists (his brother headed the French branch of this union). In 1926, he witnessed the trial of the murder of S.V. Petlyura by the French anarchist Sholom Schwarzbard .
The name of V.I.Temkin is the settlement of Ramat-Temkin in the urban area of Netanya in Israel .
Family
- Brother - Jewish public figure, doctor Zinovy Ionovich Tyomkin .
- Nephew - Hollywood composer Dmitry Zinovievich Tyomkin .
Links
- Temkin, Vladimir Ionovich // Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron . - SPb. , 1908-1913.
- B. I. Temkin - on the 10th anniversary of his rabbinical activity in the city of Elisavetgrad. / Digest of articles. - Odessa, 1903.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Temkin, Vladimir Ionovich // Jewish Encyclopedia - St. Petersburg. : 1913. - T. 14. - S. 798–799.
- ↑ KEE article
- ↑ Lists of members of the All-Russian Constituent Assembly