LUDVIPOL, ABRAHAM

LUDVIPOL, ABRAHAM (1865–1921), Hebrew journalist. Born in Novograd-Volynsk, he was active in the Ḥibbat Zion movement in Odessa. In 1890 he sailed for Ereẓ Israel but was not permitted to land. After a sojourn in Alexandria he went to Paris, where he studied and began his career as a journalist, writing in Hebrew for Ha-Meliẓ, as well as in French and Yiddish for other papers. His reputation as a leading Hebrew journalist grew during the Dreyfus affair. When the daily Ha-Ẓofeh was founded in 1903 he was invited to take up the post of editor. In 1907 he settled in Ereẓ Israel to establish a Hebrew daily of Ḥovevei Zion, but the project fell through. He was active in public affairs in Tel Aviv, and when the daily haaretz appeared at the end of World War I, he became a member of its editorial staff. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: J. Fichmann, Be-Terem Aviv (1959), 219–22; E.E. Friedman, Sefer ha-Zikhronot (1926), 283–8; Waxman, Literature, 4 (19602), 443; Kressel, Leksikon, 2 (1967), 177–8. (Getzel Kressel)