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Zlotnik, Yehuda Leib, 1888-1962
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- Yehuda Leib Avida
- Yehuda Elzet
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Born in Plock. Rabbi, Zionist activist and Yiddish, Hebrew and English writer. He wrote works on Yiddish philology, folklore and ethnology
He founded the religious Zionist organization Mizrachi in Poland in 1917. He emigrated to Canada in 1920, where he successively headed the Jewish National Fond in Canada and the Montreal Hebrew Schools. He was also a rabbi in Vancouver. He emigrated to South Africa in 1938, where he headed the Jewish Board of Education. He went to Israel in 1949, settling in Jerusalem, where he was director of the Israel Institute of Folklore and Ethnology.