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On the sign:
[תמונתו של אברהם בר גוֹטְלוֹבֶּר]
אַבְרָהָם בֶּר גוטלובר 1899-1811
סופר ומשורר בעברית וביידיש, מתרגם, מורה והיסטוריון. פרסם קובצי שירים כמו גם שירה ופרוזה, מתורגמים מרוסית וגרמנית. מחקרים היסטוריים כמו "ביקורת לתולדות הקראים" (1865) וערך את הירחון "הבוקר אור" (1876־1886). בעיקר נודעו זכרונותיו מימי נדודיו הרבים בערי תחום המושב הרוסי ובגליציה. בזכרונות אלה תיאר את הווי חיי היהודים במזרח אירופה בכלל ואת החסידות וההשכלה בפרט. היה מורה לתלמוד בבית המדרש למורים ולרבנים בזיטומיר ונמנה, בשנותיו האחרונות, עם "חובבי ציון".
The Haskalah Avenues are named after the Haskalah movement (Jewish Enlightenment) whose details can be found on the next sign Click for sign's details. The small streets located between Sderot HaHaskala and Bitzeron Street are named after the main figures in the movement.
The signs indicating the individuals are on the walls of the entrance to a public shelter located in the public garden that stretches along Sderot HaHaskala, as can be seen in the following photo taken on the same day
Gotlober is described as "The Itinerant Scholar" on a sign explaining the Enlightenment movement Click for sign's details
Translation of the text on the sign: [Photo of Avrom Ber Gotlober]
Avrom Ber Gotlober 1811-1899
Writer and poet in Hebrew and Yiddish, translator, teacher and historian. Published collections of poems as well as poetry and prose, translated from Russian and German. Historical studies such as "Review of the History of the Karaites" (1865) and edited the monthly "Haboker Or" (1876-1886). His memories of his many wanderings in the cities of the Russian settlements and in Galicia were mainly known. In these memoirs he described the nature of Jewish life in Eastern Europe in general and Hasidism and the Haskalah in particular. He was a teacher of Talmud at the Beit Midrash for teachers and rabbis in Zhytomyr and, in his last years, was one of the "Lovers of Zion".