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Jehoshua Mordechai Lifschitz (Wininger IV, 133: Josua Mordechai Lipschütz; Jewish Encyclopedia III, 1112: Lifschiz, Schi'e Mordche; born 1829 in Berdichev, Russian Empire; died 2 August 1878 there) was a Russian-born lexicographer and author of the Haskalah era. A theorist of the Yiddish movement in the 19th century, he advocated the idea of a secular Jewish culture based on Yiddish. His works include a Yiddish–Russian and a Russian–Yiddish dictionary. Lifschitz opposed both the flowery, overly ornate Haskalah literature that dismissed Yiddish as incapable of culture, as well as the Russification efforts on the other side, and consciously and consistently championed the Yiddish language. In doing so, he developed and used arguments that were adopted unchanged as axioms by the modern Yiddish movement half a century later.