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Joshua Margolin's grave at Oranim College Botanic Garden. Engraved on the stone: the hunger and thirst Land of Israel, and Herve not break until I return and rest in eternal rest in her lap.

Joshua Margolin (9 July 1877-10 September 1947) was an educator, naturalist, writer and poet in Hebrew.

Margolin was born in the town-Village Hororitz, in the district of Mohilov Rogatchov of Russia (White Russia, now Belarus). He was the son of the Melammed Yehuda Leib . As a young man Joshua studied religious but also acquired general knowledge and was very interested in studying nature. After passing equivalency exams he became a religion teacher in a high school in Kiev.

In 1909 Joshua immigrated to Israel and became a teacher in Jaffa. He educated his students to love nature, recognizing that it is essential to strengthen their connection to their country (Israel). To complete his education in teaching, Joshua returned to Kiev at the eve of World War I, where he studied at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the Kiev University. At the same time he thought nature to kids at the "Tarbut" school in the city, where Hebrew was the teaching language. Following the October revolution the school was placed under the supervision of the Yevsektsiya, the 'Hebrew' section of the Soviet Communist party, and in 1920 Joshua Margolin moved to Vilnius where he became the director of a Hebrew school.

In 1923 Margolin returned to Israel as a teacher in Mikveh Israel (the first Jewish agricultural school in Israel). As a teacher Margolin brought a revolutionary new approach to nature study: he argued that the Botany and Zoology should be studied outside the classroom and not from textbooks alone. He became a traveling teacher, traveling between schools with a backpack giving outdoor classes.

His ambition was to establish a Biological Institute - Pedagogical Tel Aviv. In 1931, with the help of Shoshana Persits, who was head of the education department at the Tel Aviv municipality has allocated land 12 Yehuda Halevi Street. Margolin built a zoo and a botanical garden small nuclear was the construction of a zoological garden of Tel Aviv University. [1]

Margolin wrote many books teaching nature, notes, narratives and poems for children on nature. He was childless and see all these kids guidance as sons. The children he was known as "Uncle Joshua".

Margolin was strong affinity kibbutzim and settlement movement, which saw the realization of the vision of the relationship of people to their land. He dreamed of establishing teacher training seminar in the natural sciences, science and art. Plans for the seminar began to be realized and purchased land for the construction but Margolin won it. In his will asked to be buried in the seminar. On the thirtieth day the cornerstone was laid death Oranim Seminary (now College Pines).

Margolin's grave is in the botanical garden of Oranim College, and his tombstone engraved words: "my hunger and thirst land of Israel and Herve not break until I return and rest in eternal rest in her lap."

Oranim College is "a science Margolin named" Teaching Nature and Science, where part of Margolin's taxidermy collection and archive. External links

   Internet radio program (podcast) teachers mythological nature before the establishment of the state and especially Margolin. From: In the Land of Israel - a podcast. Filing will open a cure.
   David Tidhar (Editor), "Joshua Margolin (" Uncle Joshua ")," Encyclopedia pioneers of community builders, Volume VI (1955), pp. 2704
   Joshua Margolin - the man and his ideas
   Margolin Archive catalog at Oranim
   Rani waffles, image and memory of the uncle "Joshua Margolin, Bulletin of Biology Teachers, No. II, 1988 Saturday, 112, on Martin
   Biological Institute - pedagogical Joshua Margolin
   Joshua Margolin, nothing, September 11, 1947
   The books of Joshua Margolin bookmark site
   Margolin's poems Joshua - poster "Zmrst"
   Joshua Margolin and philosophy - from children's culture blog kibbutzim