sentences:  Yehuda Leib Fishman (later Maimon) was born in Mărculești, in the Soroksky Uyezd of the Bessarabia Governorate (then part of the Russian Empire, now in Moldova), Maimon studied in a number of yeshivot and received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein, the author of the Aruch HaShulchan.He was one of the founders of the Mizrachi movement in 1902.By this time Maimon had moved to the Russian Empire, where he was arrested several times for Zionist activity.