Eliezer Dob Liebermann

Eliezer Dob Liebermann (Yiddish: אליעזר דוב ליבערמאן; 12 April 1820 – 15 April 1895) was a Russian maskilic writer and scholar.

Eliezer Dob Liebermann
Born(1820-04-12)12 April 1820
Suwałki Governorate
Died15 April 1895(1895-04-15) (aged 75)
LanguageHebrew
Literary movementHaskalah
ChildrenAaron Liebermann[1]

Biography

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Liebermann was born in Pilvischok in the region of Suwałki. His father was a shoḥet, and gave him a traditional Jewish education. At the age of twelve he was sent to his uncle Rabbi Elijah Schick ('Reb Elinke Lider'), then the rabbi of Amstibove, who instructed him in Talmud and rabbinical literature.[2] In 1838 he went to Vilna and joined the maskilim.[3] In about 1844 he settled as a teacher in Białystok. In 1867 he left to Suwałki, remained there about twenty years, and then returned to Białystok.[4]

He was the author of Megillat sefer, a collection of short stories, essays, fables, and letters, and of Tsedaka u-mishpat, a Hebrew adaptation of S. D. Luzzatto's Lezioni di Teologia Morale Israelitica.[5] He wrote also Ge ḥizzayon, several works still in manuscript, and a number of articles which he published in various Hebrew periodicals.[3][4]

Bibliography

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  • Megillat sefer (in Hebrew). Johannisberg. 1854.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Tsedaka u-mishpat [Righteousness and Justice] (in Hebrew). Vilna: S. Y. Fuenn & A. T. Rosenkranz. 1866. hdl:2027/uc1.a0001943570.
  • Ge ḥizzayon (in Hebrew). Warsaw. 1889.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

References

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  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainRosenthal, Herman; Wiernik, Peter (1904). "Liebermann, Eliezer Dob". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 80.

  1. ^ Frankel, Jonathan (1984). Prophecy and Politics: Socialism, Nationalism, and the Russian Jews, 1862–1917. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-521-26919-3.
  2. ^ Sokolow, Naḥum (1889). Sefer zikaron le-sofrei Israel ha-ḥayim itanu ka-yom [Memoir Book of Contemporary Jewish Writers] (in Hebrew). Warsaw. pp. 57–58.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ a b Katznelson, J. L.; Ginzburg, Baron D., eds. (1911). "Либерман, Элиезер Бер"  [Liebermann, Eliezer Ber]. Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron (in Russian). Vol. 10. St. Petersburg: Brockhaus & Efron. p. 191.
  4. ^ a b   Rosenthal, Herman; Wiernik, Peter (1904). "Liebermann, Eliezer Dob". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 80.
  5. ^ Zeitlin, William (1890). "Liebermann, Lazar Ber". Bibliotheca hebraica post-Mendelssohniana (in German). Leipzig: K. F. Koehler's Antiquarium. p. 211.