Reuben Brainin

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

Life

He received a traditional Jewish education and studied mathematics in Moscow and philosophy in Vienna. His first article ( Hameliz 59, 1888) was about the last days Smolenskins. In 1892 he was in Vienna umima'araw publisher of Mimizrach. He wrote several essays in Achiassaf and criticized Jude Gordon body sharply in the first of Ahad Ha'am published edition of Haschiloach.

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

From 1909 he lived in New York, where he founded the weekly paper Haderor. From 1912 to 1915 he was in Canada publisher of Kanader Adler, one since 1907, appearing in Montreal Yiddish- Zionist daily newspaper, from 1915 to 1916, he published The Way.

In 1919 appeared in New York in the English translation of its originally written in Hebrew biographical work on Theodor Herzl ( Herzl Chaje, 1898), 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
• Total works. New York 1940 ( Hebrew)