[1] Alongside of journalistic articles he wrote protracted novels.

His touching "Pictures of the Past," his stories "The Penal Recruit" and "The Inherited Candlestick" (1859-1860) called up before the generation living at the dawn of the new era of reforms the shadows of the passing night: the tortures of Nicholas' conscription and the degrading forms of Jewish rightlessness.
[Footnote 1: See above, p, 219.] The fight against this rightlessness was the goal of his journalistic activity which, prior to the publication of the _Razswyet_, he had carried on in the columns of the liberal Russian press.

The problems of inner Jewish life had but little attraction for him.

Like Riesser, he looked upon civil emancipation as a panacea for all Jewish ailments.

He was snatched away by death before he could be cured of this illusion.
Rabinovich's work was continued by a talented youth, the journalist Ilya (Elias) Orshanski of Yekaterinoslav (1846-1875), who was the main contributor to the _Dyen_ of Odessa and to the _Yevreyskaya Bibliotyeka_.