Alter Levin Explained

Alter Levin
Birth Date:4 January 1883
Birth Place:Minsk, Russian Empire
Death Place:Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine
Resting Place:Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery
Language:Hebrew

Alter Isaac Levin (; 4 January 1883 – 4 October 1933), also known by the pen name Asaph ha-Levi, was a Hebrew-language writer and poet.

Born in Minsk, he immigrated to Ottoman Jerusalem (later Mandatory Palestine) in 1891, studying there at the Etz Chaim Yeshiva. During World War I he conducted espionage for the British. He committed suicide in 1933.

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