Shmuel Hurvits (Yiddish: שמואל הורוויץ; 1862 – March 6, 1943, also spelled Samuel Hurwitz), also known by his pseudonym A. Litvin (א.
He began writing poems and articles in the 1890s; he was initially published in Russian for the St. Petersburg magazine Rodina,[1][3] but also wrote in Hebrew.
He published his first Yiddish work, an article titled "Erets-yisroel un ire heldn" ('The Land of Israel and its Heroes') in the Warsaw-based Zionist periodical Der Yud.
[1][3] He founded a Yiddish leftist monthly periodical Leben un Visnshaft ('Life and Science') in Vilna, which ran from March 1909 to the end of 1912.
Despite his Zionist leanings, he was on friendly terms with the General Jewish Labour Bund and various illegal Bundist groups in Russia.