'The Dawn') was a Hebrew-language monthly periodical, published and edited at Vienna by Peretz Smolenskin from 1868 to 1884.

[2] The journal contained scientific articles, essays, biographies, and literature, as well as general Jewish news.

[3] The objects of Smolenskin were to spread Enlightenment and knowledge of the Hebrew language, and particularly to oppose obscurantism.

Ha-Shaḥar greatly influenced the Haskalah movement, especially in Russia, where it was well known.

It was read secretly in the yeshivot, in private houses, and in the batte midrashot.