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Aviv of the 1930s. Cholodenko was also a board member of the Association of Russian Jews, the Jerusalem Society, and the Tel Aviv Housing Charity, donating some of his fortune to the city's poor. As a staunch liberal, he firmly believed that private initiative was not at odds with the Zionist enterprise.
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in opposition to the socialist majority. He was also a member of the Great Synagogue committee and donated substantial sums of money for its construction. His close friendship with Hayim Nahman Bialik was instrumental in the founding of the Oneg Shabbat center, a hub of cultural initiative in Tel
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Cholodenko married Rivka, daughter of Yehuda Slutzki, a local Jewish leader ("Gvir"). With her he moved to Kiev, where he continued to advocate for Zionism, especially in the cultural realm. After the Second Zionist Congress (1898), he founded the first "improved
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newspaper der Telegraph, but given growing Bolshevik censorship, his Zionist activities were forced underground. He started the clandestine synagogue "Knesset Israel" and a school which prepared youth for manual labor in Palestine.
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Avraham Cholodenko died at Ohel Shem Hall in Tel Aviv in May 1942 in the middle of an assembly meeting of the General Zionists, which advocated for general education (instead of party controlled schools). He was buried in
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movement, he studied the Hebrew Bible and excelled in Hebrew language and in both Jewish and European literature. His academic talents reached the ears of the local rabbi, Mordechai Levitzki, who became his private tutor.
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In 1920, Cholodenko was arrested with a few of his associates and upon his release immigrated to Palestine with his family. In Tel Aviv, he founded (with his friend, Avraham Gutman) a printing press not far from the
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with secular education taught in Hebrew. Following the great success of this initiative, his cheder began to offer adult evening classes, which facilitated Zionist activity in Kiev and contributed to the
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in the area, who fiercely resisted his Zionist activity, circulated defamatory rumors against him, but the great rabbi Mordechai Dov Twerski (whose father founded the
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of 1897. He worked diligently for the establishment of a Zionist association in the district of Kiev, which soon numbered more than 150 members. The orthodox
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His eldest son, Dr. Yitzhak/Isaac Cholodenko (1889-1917), distanced himself from his family's liberal Zionism and joined the
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Avraham Cholodenko (sitting on the right) in Tel Aviv in 1928. Standing in the middle his son Aharon, and on the left—Eliyahu
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His second son, Dr. Aharon Cholodenko, a graduate of Kiev University's medical school, was a Zionist activist during the
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and Oneg Shabbat (joy of sabbath) cultural center—together with his friend, the prominent poet and intellectual
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Ultimately trained as a teacher and pedagogue, Cholodenko initiated his Zionist activity immediately after the
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Cholodenko, son of Yacov and Hinda, was born in the impoverished village of Sytniaky in the district of
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Cholodenko Lieberman, Rose, "Being My Father's Child", Memoirs of Rose Lieberman Cholodenko,
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His youngest son, Eliyahu Cholodenko, was sent to Berlin to study piano at the famed
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His daughter Nina (Pnina) Cholodenko married Shmuel Katz, a survivor of the
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and died of typhoid fever in a battlefield hospital at age 28 during the
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liberal party and played a major role in the founding of
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Encyclopedia of the Founders and Builders of Israel
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