A year later it was renamed вЂIt will be said about the nationsвЂ™ (Al medinot bo ye-amer), which became widely borrowed in the burgeoning Hebrew language press of the time. Gordon created a new column in Ha-Magid as early as in January 1859, entitled вЂ General HistoryвЂ™, where he would report on global political events and the world of science. And he went on to convey this in Hebrew, which he knew much better than Rabbi Silberman. Thanks to the experience he had gained in Britain and his fluent knowledge of English, German, and French, Gordon brought to his role as the deputy editor-in-chief a breath of fresh air and a deeper understanding of the modern world. This form of cooperation was short lived, however, as Gordon returned to EЕ‚k two years later вЂ“ in 1858.

Nonetheless, the two men did come to an agreement that David would be Ha-MagidвЂ™s correspondent in England. In 1856, despite SilbermanвЂ™s effortsВ to persuade him, Gordon (who was then on his way back to England from Seirijai, Lithuania) did not agree to the rabbiвЂ™s proposal to jointly create a new publication вЂ“ though he later admitted that the offer had affected him so deeply that he could not sleep afterwards. In the early 1850s, when Gordon was somewhere between 20 and 25 years old (the sources do not agree on the year of his birth вЂ“ 1826? 1831? 1832?), he had tried his luck abroad in Liverpool, where he spent a few years teaching Hebrew and German. This is why he invited to his home David Gordon in an attempt to recruit the somewhat younger Lithuanian Jew born near Vilnius. Rabbi Silberman from Kaunas, Lithuania knew from the beginning that he would need help in running the kind of periodical he dreamt of. Indeed, in the academic literature one can read that Ha-Magid created a paper territory for klal Israel вЂ“ all Jews. вЂњDuring its reign in the years 1856-1886, Ha-Magid was the most important Hebrew language periodical in the world,вЂќ writes Yosef Salmon, a scholar who has researched Ha-Magid. As he himself described, he wanted Ha-Magid to become вЂњa common denominator uniting the scattered children of Israel.вЂќ He would soon make this a reality. This moderately conservative (in relation to orthodoxy) journal had a pioneering role in resurrecting Hebrew as a modern language, and not one used primarily for liturgical purposes. The first edition was out in June of 1856. It is in EЕ‚k that Rabbi Eliezer Lipman Silberman (1819-1881) published Ha-Magid (meaning вЂthe preacherвЂ™ in Hebrew). It was more open to the world, and led beyond what was a regional backwater.вЂќ After all, the trajectory of Jewish life was totally different. вЂњThis is reasonable, but only as far as it goes. вЂњWeвЂ™re used to viewing Masurian issues primarily through the lens of the mutual interactions between Poles and Germans,вЂќ Е»ytyniec explains. This makes for quite the irony as the first Hebrew-language weekly in the world, Ha-Magid, published here in EЕ‚k, had enjoyed smooth distribution throughout Europe вЂ“ and even to Palestine and Persia вЂ“ for over ten years before the appearance of the railway.

EЕ‚k became an important hub connecting communication routes and train lines.вЂќ By the turn of the century beautiful buildings drawing upon Arte Nouveau appeared and trade was invigorated. вЂњThis meant that EЕ‚k, which had previously been growing along the main street winding around the lake, would also develop in the direction of the railway station. The railway brought a complete revolution to Masuria in all spheres of life,вЂќ says RafaЕ‚ Е»ytyniec, the Director of EЕ‚kвЂ™s Historical Museum, located in a building long belonging to the railway complex. That December the first train departed from EЕ‚k. вЂњWe need to go back in time a bit, to 1868. The rather large, for its time, rail station connected the town with the rest of Prussia and, importantly, with the village of Prostki, located only 20 km away on the border with the Russian Empire. The key to the mid-19th-century development of EЕ‚k ( then the Prussian town of Lyck) was the railway.

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