Lev Borissowitsch Jaffe
Leib Yaffe , even body Borisovich Jaffe , Russian Лев (Лейб) Борисович Яффе (born May 24, jul. / 5. June 1876 greg. In Grodno in Russia ; † 11. March 1948 in Jerusalem ) was a Jewish poet , journalist , Publicist , translator and Zionist .
Life
Jaffe was the son of Boris Jaffe and his wife Chai-Lei Lapin. He was brought up in a traditional Jewish way and attended the yeshiva of Valoschyn . 1897–1901 he studied philosophy at the universities of Heidelberg , Freiburg and Leipzig . In Grodno he organized a Chibbat Zion youth group.
In 1906, Jaffe was elected a member of the Central Committee of the Zionist Organization of Vilnius at the Third All-Russian Conference of Zionists in Helsinki , and at the Eighth Zionist Congress he was elected to the Executive Committee, where he remained until 1911.
From 1915 to 1917 Jaffe published the newspaper Jüdisches Leben together with Alexander Goldstein . 1917-1919 he was editor-in-chief of the Safrut publishing house in Moscow . Together with the poet Wladislaw Felizianowitsch Chodassewitsch , he put together the collection of young Hebrew poetry for which Chaim Grinberg prepared translations and which was published by Safrut in 1918 .
After the death of the Zionist leader Jechiel Tschlenow (1863-1918) Jaffe was elected secretary of the Moscow Zionist Organization and in 1919 chairman of the Zionist Organization of Lithuania . In Vilnius he participated in the publication of the newspapers last Naies , Yiddische Zaitung and Cha-Schawua .
In 1920 Jaffe emigrated with his family to Palestine , where he immediately became editor and 1921–1922 editor-in-chief of the newspaper Haaretz . From 1926 until his death he was director of the Keren Hajessod Foundation .
On March 11, 1948, Jaffe was killed along with 12 others in a car bomb attack by Arab terrorists in the courtyard of the Jewish Agency for Israel in Jerusalem . He was married to the memoir writer Frida Wenjaminowna Jaffe, b. Chaplain, and brother Bezal Jaffes.
Streets in Jerusalem, Beersheba , Netanya , Ramat Gan and Herzliya and a moshav in southern Israel were named after him .
Web links
- Electronic Jewish Encyclopedia: Jaffe Leib (Russian) , accessed September 3, 2015
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jaffe, Lev Borisovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jaffe, Leib Borissowitsch; Яффе, Лев Борисович (Russian); Яффе, Лейб Борисович |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belarusian poet, journalist, publicist, translator and Zionist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grodno , Belarus |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 11, 1948 |
| Place of death | Jerusalem |