Ruben Brainin

Reuben Brainin ( Ruben ben Mordecai Brainin or Reuben or Reuven Brainin ; born March 4 ^jul. / 16th March 1862 ^greg. In Ljady , Belarus , † the 30th November 1939 in New York ) was a Hebrew and Yiddish writer and literary critic .

Life

He received the traditional Jewish education and studied mathematics in Moscow and philosophy in Vienna . His first article ( Hameliz 59, 1888) was about the last days of Smolenskin . In 1892 he was the editor of Mimizrach umima'araw ("From East and West") in Vienna . He wrote various essays in Achiassaf and sharply criticized Jehuda Leib Gordon in the first edition of the Hashiloach published by Achad Haam .

Brainin developed into a mediator between Hebrew and Western literature, also wrote monographs on Smolenskin (1896) and Abraham Mapu (1900). He promoted the still unknown Saul Tschernichowski , was a freelancer for various newspapers and magazines, in which he published numerous articles (including in Hazefira , Hador , Hazofe , Hazeman , also the Russian-Yiddish press).

From 1909 he lived in New York and founded the weekly newspaper Haderor there . From 1912 to 1915 he was in Canada editor of Keneder Adler , a since 1907 in Montreal appearing Yiddish-Zionist newspaper, from 1915 to 1916 he was the way out.

In 1919 an English translation of his biographical work on Theodor Herzl ( Chaje Herzl , 1898), originally written in Hebrew, was published in New York , and from 1919 to 1926 he was editor of the magazine Hatoren (New York).

He also worked as a translator and wrote many works on Zionism , including reports on the first five Zionist congresses .

Works

A Life of Herzl. New York 1919
Entire works. New York 1940 (Hebrew)

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SURNAME	Brainin, Ruben
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Brainin, Ruben ben Mordechai; Brainin, Reuben; Brainin, Reuven
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hebrew and Yiddish writer and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH	March 16, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ljady , Belarus
DATE OF DEATH	November 30, 1939
Place of death	new York