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Alexander Harkavy (??????????? ?????????? ????????? ???????' Aleksandr Garkavi, May 5, 1863, born at Nowogrudok (?????????????), Minsk guberniya (governorate), Russia (now Navahrudak, Hrodna, Belarus) - 1939, New York) was a Russian-born American writer, lexicographer and linguist.

Alexander was educated privately, and at an early age evinced a predilection for philology. In 1879 he went to Vilna, where he worked in the printing-office of the Romm Brothers. In 1882 he went to the United States, in 1885 to Paris; he subsequently returned to America, and settled in New York, where he resided in 1903.

He was one of the contributors to the Jewish Encyclopedia.

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