Noah Pines

Born in Shklov, Russian Empire (today in Belarus), Noah Pines received a traditional education at the Volozhin yeshiva and studied pedagogy in Germany and Switzerland. Identifying with the Ḥibat Tsiyon movement and emerging as a movement poet, Pines made his career in education. At the turn of the twentieth century he opened a heder metukan (reformed heder, a school teaching a mix of traditional texts, modern studies, and Jewish national perspectives) in Lublin. In 1919, he immigrated to Palestine in 1919 and joined the faculty at the Levinsky Teachers’ Seminary in Tel Aviv, where he served as principal from 1923 until his death. Pines wrote children’s literature and composed Zionist songs that were popular during his time.