Shmaryahu Levin

Shmaryahu Levin (; born 1867 in Svislach, Minsk Governorate; died 9 June 1935, Haifa), was a Jewish Zionist activist. He was a member of the first elected Russian Parliament in 1906.

Biography Levin, originally from Svisloch, Belorussia, became involved with Hovevei Zion during his early years. 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 wrote for Hebrew publications like Ha-Shilo'ah and Yiddish ones such as Der Yud and Der Fraynd.

Shmaryahu Levin served as a crown rabbi in the towns of Grodno (189697) and Ekaterinoslav (Dnipropetrovsk) from 1898 to 1904.

At the Sixth Zionist Congress in 1903, Levin was a prominent opponent of the Uganda Scheme. 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. In 1906, Levin was elected to represent the Jewish National List from Vilna in the inaugural Russian Duma.