Arthur Freeman was a Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

n Jewish writer

Writer

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; born at Vilnius

Vilnius

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 about 1840. Persecuted because of his participation in revolutionary movements, he fled to America

United States

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, and died by his own hand at Syracuse, New York

Syracuse, New York

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, on November 8, 1880. He was the editor of Ha-Emet, a Hebrew monthly of communist tendencies (Vienna, 1877), only the prospectus and two numbers of which appeared; and he was the first to organize socialist societies among the Jews in London

London

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