Yehezkel Nisanov Explained

Yehezkel Nisanov
Birth Date:	1886
Death Date:	1911
Birth Place:	Dagestan, Caucasus, Russian Empire
Death Place:	Ottoman Syria, Ottoman Empire
Allegiance:	Hashomer
Known For:	One of the founders of Hashomer
Relations:	Shoshana Nisanov (Mother)^[1] Shimon Nisanov (Father)^[2] Zvi Nisanov (Brother)^[3] Yehuda Nisanov (Brother)^[4] Ossip Assaf Nisanov (Brother)^[5] Nissim Nisanov (Brother)^[6]

Yehezkel Nisanov (Hebrew: יחזקאל ניסנוב; 1886-1911^[7]) was a Mountain Jewish Zionist and early immigrant in Eretz Israel.

He became involved in the Russian Social Democratic Party and was one of the early founders of the Bar Giora group^{[8] [9]} and later Hashomer^{[10] [11] [12]}

Life

Nisanov was born in 1886 in Tamir-Khan-Shura to a family of Mountain Jews.^[13] Growing up in poverty, he began working at a young age and later moved to Baku to study sewing, where he became involved in the Russian Social Democratic Party and eventually the Poalei Zion movement.^[14] Because of Zionist aspirations he immigrated to Ottoman Palestine in 1906, together with his family. He played a significant role as one of the early founders of the Bar Giora militia^[15] and later Hashomer.^[16] Settling in the Galilee, he dedicated himself to land guarding and acquisition.^{[17] [18]}

Death

Nisanov was killed by Arab thieves on February 13, 1911,^[19] near Yavne'el and Beit Gan (now part of Yavne'el) after refusing to give up his cart and mules.^{[20] [21] [22] [23] [24]} Israel Giladi, one of the leaders of Hashomer, wrote of his death:

Of course, he preferred to be killed rather than to give up his mules to the Arabs. When they stole the animals from some farmer Nisanov would reproach him bitterly: "How is it that you are still alive and your animals are gone? Shame on you!" And now he has shown that he was as good as his word.^[25]

Notes and References

1. Web site: שושנה ניסנוב . 27 February 2015 .
2. Web site: שמעון ניסנוב . 14 June 2017 .
3. Web site: Tzvi Nissanov . March 2019 .
4. Web site: Yehuda Nissanov . 23 September 2022 .
5. Web site: Ossip Assaf Nissanov . 22 October 2015 .
6. Web site: Nissim Nissanov . 22 October 2015 .
7. Book: לישנסקי . בתיה . בתיה לישנסקי . Lichansky . Batia . אפשטין . אריאלה . 1988 . משרד הבטחון . 978-965-05-0371-0 . en.
8. Book: Ben-Ami . Shlomo . Those Were the Generations--: 2000 [years Of] Jewish History ]. Mishal . Nissim . 2000 . Yedioth Ahronoth . 978-965-448-745-0 . en.
9. Book: Rubinstein, Leon . The First Swallows: The Dawn of the Third Aliya . 1986 . Cornwall Books . 978-0-8453-4758-4 . en.
10. Web site: האחים ניסנוב ואמם / יעקב יערי־פולסקין / יוסף לואידור - פרויקט בן־יהודה . 2024-04-21 . benyehuda.org.
11. Book: The Jewish Spectator . 1977 . School of the Jewish Woman . en.
12. Book: Chazan, Meir . Jewish Women and the Defense of Palestine: The Modest Revolution, 1907–1945 . 2022-09-01 . State University of New York Press . 978-1-4384-9015-1 . en.
13. Web site: Yehezkel Nisanov . 2024-04-21 . www.izkor.gov.il.
14. Web site: 3258 Encyclopedia of the Founders and Builders of Israel . 2024-04-21 . www-tidhar-tourolib-org.translate.goog.
15. Book: Ben-Ami . Shlomo . Those Were the Generations--: 2000 [years Of] Jewish History ]. Mishal . Nissim . 2000 . Yedioth Ahronoth . 978-965-448-745-0 . en.
16. Web site: Nisanov, Yehezkel . 2024-04-21 . Honor Israel's Fallen . en-US.
17. Book: Frankel, Jonathan . Prophecy and Politics: Socialism, Nationalism, and the Russian Jews, 1862-1917 . 1984-11-08 . Cambridge University Press . 978-0-521-26919-3 . en.
18. Web site: Oded . סיפורי ארץ-ישראל - מצבות מדברות 1950 – 1850 . 2024-04-22 . he.
19. Web site: Force Commemoration .
20. Web site: Giladi . Devorah . 2017-11-30 . The Attitude toward Bereavement in Everyday Life in the Jewish Agricultural Settlements of Eretz Israel, from the First Aliyah to the 1920s . 2024-06-30 . Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History . en-US.
21. Devorah Giladi and Yossi Goldstein . The Attitude toward Bereavement in Everyday Life in the Jewish Agricultural Settlements of Eretz Israel, from the First Aliyah to the 1920s . Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History . 2023 . 24 . 2 . 135–162 .
22. News: 24 February 1911 . 3 . Hebrew: האחדות|link=no (ha-Achdut) . Yehezkel Nisanov.
23. Web site: ⁨50שנה! לפני _iBinimiiiiMi זזו‭H"ff(_P1v11r1rflTn'rr1T! זז ⁩ - ⁨⁨דבר⁩ 17 אוגוסט 1976⁩ - הספרייה הלאומית של ישראל │ עיתונים . 2024-04-22 . www.nli.org.il . he.
24. Web site: Meir Chazan .
25. Book: 430 . The Yizkor Book of 1911—A Note on National Myths in the Second Aliya . Jonathan Frankel . Essential Papers on Zionism . Jehuda Reinharz and Anita Shapira . New York University Press . 1996.