Isaak Borissowitsch Feinerman

Isaak Borissowitsch Feinerman ( Russian Исаа́к Бори́сович Фейнерма́н , pseudonym Tenerife , Тенеро́мо , actually Jizchak Feinerman ; born 1863 in Kremenchuk ; died 1925 ) was a Jewish publicist and film dramaturg in Russia. He was an ardent supporter of Lev N. Tolstoy and his teachings .

Life

Jizchak Feinerman was born in Kremenchuk in 1863 into a Jewish family. In 1885 he went to Yasnaya Polyana , the estate of Lev Tolstoy, and lived there for a few years. He radically represented the ideas of a simple life, initially working as a teacher, later only in agriculture or as a shepherd in great self-imposed poverty.

Feinerman went back to Kremenchuk, later lived in Poltava , then in Elizabethgrad . He worked as a carpenter, then as a dentist. From around 1900 he began to write articles for magazines and newspapers, wrote essays as well as first plays and film scenarios. He continued to be very committed to the person and teachings of Tolstoy. In 1910 he organized his funeral.

Feinerman worked as a dramaturge in several films and intensified his journalistic activities. He died in 1925.

Film scenarios

• Departure of the great old man (1912), on LN Tolstoy
• Senselessness of Drinking (1914), based on texts by Tolstoy
• Jewish happiness (1925)

Fonts

• Memories of LN Tolstoy ( Воспоминания о Л. Н. Толстом и его письма ), St. Petersburg 1906
• Speeches by LN Tolstoy (1885-1908) ( Живые речи Л. Н. Толстого (1885-1908 гг.) ), Odessa 1908
• LN Tolstoy on the Jews ( Л. Н. Толстой о евреях ), St. Petersburg 1908