Shmaryahu Levin

Shmaryahu Levin (Russian: Шмарьяху Левин; born 1867 in Svislach, Minsk Governorate; died 9 June 1935, Haifa), was a Jewish Zionist activist.

A follower of Ahad HaAm, as a young man, he and Leo Motzkin created the union of Jewish students in Russia during their time at university in Berlin.

He also co-founded the League for the Attainment of Equal Rights for the Jewish People in Russia in 1905 and served on its central board.

He participated in the activities of the Hilfsverein der deutschen Juden in Germany and helped to found a technical university in Haifa.

[1] However, together with Ahad Ha-Am and J. Tschlenow, Levin resigned from the Technion board of governors after their proposal to switch to teaching in Hebrew was turned down.

Bust of Shmarya Levin at the Technion