Mikhail Grinberg

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Mikhail Greenberg

Michail Grinberg (born 1951 , Russian Михаил Львович Гринберг / Michail Lwowitsch Grinberg, scientific transliteration Michail L'vovič Grinberg , also Mikhail Lvovich Greenberg , pseudonym: Selenogorski ) is an Israeli historian who works in Russia and is a personality, author, publisher, and Israeli Jew Russian-Jewish origin.

biography

Grinberg was born into a military family. He studied at the Ryazan Pedagogical Institute at the Faculty of History. He came into closer contact with the Chabad leaders and other Hasidic groups near Moscow in 1969; in the 1980s he took a leading role in the religious community. In 1986 he transported the remains of Rabbi Mordechai Dubin (1889–1956), a follower of Joseph Isaac Schneersohn , the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, from Tula to Riga . He emigrated to Israel in 1988, where he published the book album Graves of Tzaddikim in Russia (Могилы цадиков в России) in 1989. He worked at the Israeli publishing house Shamir . In 1990 he took part in the restoration of the communal and cultural-social life of the Jews of Lviv . 1992–1995 he was the first rector of the Hebrew University of Moscow, which he organized . In the 1990s he founded the Gescharim / Bridges of Culture publishing house , which publishes literature on Judaism and other works in Russian in Jerusalem and Moscow . He was named "Man of the Year / Человек года" (2004) by the Federation of Jewish Communities in Russia . In 2012 he received the Pushkin Medal . He is the editor of a large number of books on the subject of Jewish culture . His book on Archbishop Andrei (Prince Uchtomskij) , published in 1991, was published in 2010 in an expanded edition. Among other things, he published illustrated monographs on Jewish (holiday) postcards from Eastern Europe and Russia.

Publications (selection)

  • (Post) Рябушинский В. П. Старообрядчество и русское религиозное чувство [Old Believers and Russian Religious Feelings] / Сост., Вступ. очерк и комментарии В. В. Нехотина, В. Н. Анисимовой, М. Л. Гринберга. М., Изд. Мостыкультуры. 2010. 452 pp.
  • Гринберг, М .: Могилы цадиков в России. Jerusalem, 1989
  • Krepostʹ nad bezdnoj / [Ed .: M. Grinberg]. Moskva: Mosty Kulʹtury - Ierusalim: Gešarim (on the Theresienstadt concentration camp 1941–1945)
  • Greenberg, Mikhail & Mordekhai [Eds.] / Levin, Evgeni [Texts]: The Circle of Jewish Life in Postcards. [Krug Evreiskoi Zhizni v Pochtovykh otkrytkakh / Evrejskoj Zhizni v Pochtovyh Otkrytkah]. Gesharim PublishingHouse, Jerusalem / Moscow, 2012
  • Greenberg, Mikhail & Mordekhai; Perel, Anna [Eds.] / Levin, Evgeni [Texts]: Jewish Holidays in Postcards [Evreiskie Prazdniki v Pochtovykh Otkrytkakh]. Gesharim Publishing House ND, Jerusalem / Moscow

See also

References and footnotes

  1. Russian Зеленогорский , wiss. Transliteration Zelenogorskij , also: Zelenogorsky
  2. A Hasidic group within Orthodox Judaism.
  3. Yuli Kosharovsky, Ann Komaromi: "We Are Jews Again": Jewish activism in the Soviet Union. 2017, p. 357, note 82 (interview).
  4. Russian Еврейский университет в Москве / Jewreiski uniwersitet w Moskwe , scientific transliteration Evrejskij universitet v Moskve . - Not to be confused with the Jewish University of Moscow, founded in 2018 ( jta.org: First Jewish university to open in Russia ).
  5. Moskva: Mosty Kulʹtury - Ierusalim: Gešarim / Gescharim / Mosty kultury ( Russian Гешарим / Мосты культуры , scientific transliteration Gešarim / Mosty kul'tury )
  6. Russian Андрей (Ухтомский) , scientific transliteration Andrej (Uchtomskij) ; see. Archbishop Andrej (Prince Uchtomskij) - orthodoxe-bibliothek.de
  7. With an English introduction, captions in English and Russian and a Russian glossary.

literature

  • Yuli Kosharovsky, Ann Komaromi: "We Are Jews Again": Jewish Activism in the Soviet Union. 2017 ( partial online view ), p. 357, note 82 (interview)

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