Leon Mendelsburg (Yiddish: אריה ליב מענדעלסבורג, romanized: Aryeh Leib Mendelsburg; 22 May 1819 – 1897)[1] was a Russian Jewish educator and writer.
Leon Mendelsburg | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 19, 1819 Włodawa, Congress Poland |
| Died | 1897 (aged 77–78) Warsaw, Warsaw Governorate, Congress Poland |
| Language | German |
Biography
editLeon Mendelsburg was born in 1819 in Włodawa, Russian Poland. At the age of twelve he went to study Talmud in Tomaszów under Phineas Mendel Heilprin.[1] In 1850 he was appointed government teacher at the Jewish public school in Novograd-Volhynsk,[2] and in 1854 he was transferred to the rabbinical school at Zhitomir, where he remained until the closing of that school by the government (July 1, 1873). He then settled in Koretz, and later in Warsaw.
From 1850 Mendelsburg was a frequent contributor in German to the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums, in which he published articles on the life of the Jews in the Russian Empire. He published also Dichtung und Warhheit (1862), a volume of sketches of Russo-Jewish life.
Publications
edit- Dichtung und Wahrheit. Odessa: Druck von P. Franzow. 1862.
References
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rosenthal, Herman; Lipman, J. G. (1904). "Mendelsburg, Leon". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 475.
- ^ a b Sokolow, Naḥum (1889). Sefer zikaron le-sofrei Israel ha-ḥayim itanu ka-yom [Memoir Book of Contemporary Jewish Writers] (in Hebrew). Warsaw. p. 72.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Stanislavsky, S. (1911). [Mendel'sburg, Lev]. In Katznelson, J. L.; Ginzburg, Baron D. (eds.). Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron (in Russian). Vol. 10. St. Petersburg: Brockhaus & Efron. p. 860.