Yitzhak Elazari Volcani Explained
Yitzhak Elazari Volcani |
Native Name: | יצחק אלעזרי וולקני |
Native Name Lang: | he |
Birth Date: | 28 January 1880 |
Birth Place: | Eišiškės, Russian Empire |
Burial Place: | Nahalal Cemetery |
Yitzhak Elazari Volcani (Hebrew: יצחק אביגדור אלעזרי-וולקני, January 28, 1880 - May 24, 1955)[1] was a writer, agronomist and botanist, pioneer of agricultural research in Israel and the founder of Volcani Center of Agricultural Research.
Born as Yitzchak-Avigdor Wilkansky in Eišiškės, Russian Empire (now in Lithuania),[2] Elazari-Volcani got a degree in Agronomy from the University of Königsberg[3] and made aliyah to Erez Israel in 1908.[4] [5] There, he worked as a director of experimental farm in Ben Shemen and Huldah,[2] [6] [7] where he lived from 1914, and was a member of Zionist organization Hapoel Hatzair.[5] He founded the first agricultural research station in Israel,[8] that later became a faculty of the Hebrew University.[3] As a member of Hapoel Hatzair, Volcani was a proponent of moshav rather that kibbutz, believing in a "personal freedom of creation" as opposed by more collectivist kibbutz movement.[9] Volcani was a member of Executive Committee of the Zionist Organization in Palestine, and advisor of the World Zionist Organization.[3]
He wrote several plays and articles in Hebrew under pseudonyms Ben Avuya and A. Zioni.[2] [10]
His brother, Meir Wilkansky (1882–1949), was a Hebrew writer and translator.[2] [11] His son, Benjamin Elazari Volcani, was a biologist who found life in the Dead Sea;[12] his daughter, Zafrira Volcani (1910-1988), was a microbiologist.[13]
Notes and References
- Web site: יצחק אביגדור אלעזרי-וולקני . library.osu.edu . 24 June 2023.
- Web site: Элазари-Волкани Авигдор Ицхак . Электронная еврейская энциклопедия ОРТ . 24 June 2023 . ru.
- Berg . Gerry . Zionism's Gender: Hannah Meisel and the Founding of the Agricultural Schools for Young Women . Israel Studies . 2001 . 6 . 3 . 135–165 . 10.1353/is.2001.0024 . 24 June 2023.
- Web site: Yitzhak Elazari-Volcani (Wilkanski) . www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org . 24 June 2023.
- Web site: Itzhak Elazari-Volcani, 1880-1955 . CIE . 24 June 2023 . en . 11 August 2022.
- Web site: יצחק אלעזרי וילקנסקי-וולקני, "חוזה המחקר החקלאי" - מכון וולקני . www.agri.gov.il . 24 June 2023.
- Web site: The Second Decade: 1911-1920 - Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael - KKL-JNF . www.kkl-jnf.org . 24 June 2023 . en.
- Web site: AGRICULTURE IN THE DESERT . The Furrow The John Deere Magazine . 24 June 2023.
- Penslar . Derek Jonathan . Technical expertise and the construction of the rural Yishuv, 1882–1948 . Jewish History . 2000 . 14 . 2 . 201–224 . 10.1023/a:1007120221297.
- Book: Shapira . Anita . Berris . Anthony . Yosef Haim Brenner: a life . 2015 . Stanford university press . Stanford (Calif.) . 9780804785273 . 95, 110, 284.
- Web site: מאיר וילקנסקי . library.osu.edu . 25 June 2023.
- Web site: University of California: In Memoriam, 2000 . texts.cdlib.org . 25 June 2023.
- Web site: Obituary: Zafrira Volcani . Springer Netherlands . September 1989 . 2010-06-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110826021340/http://resources.metapress.com/pdf-preview.axd?code=0325n64377427175&size=largest . 2011-08-26 .