Attempting to leave for Germany to continue his education, he was stopped at the border and brought back, a virtual prisoner, to Vinitza.
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Sol Liptzin characterized him as "a master of the picturesque vitriolic phrase." Liptzin, 1972, 46
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He was raised a Hasidic Jew in Vinnytsia, Podolia (now in Ukraine), but revolted against his violent schoolteachers and cabalist father by aligning himself with the Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment.
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Linetzky ran away to Odessa, Ukraine, where he acquired a secular education.
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