Samuel Chaim Landau

Born into a Polish Hasidic environment, Samuel Chaim Landau became a religious Zionist after World War I (when he was taken hostage by the Germans) while maintaining Hasidic observance. He had a leadership role with the Mizrachi organization in Poland and later in Palestine, and he organized Zionist youth movements. Writing in Hebrew, he published articles on the interrelationship of the Torah, labor, and nationalism. He moved to the Land of Israel in 1926, where he died at age thirty-six.