Name Reuben Brainin | Role Biographer | |
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Genre literary criticism, biography Died November 30, 1939, New York, United States | ||
Reuben Brainin, Reuven Brainin, or Ruben ben Mordecai Brainin (Hebrew: ראובן בריינין; March 16, 1862 - November 30, 1939) was a Russian Jewish publicist, biographer and literary critic.
He was born in Ljady (ru) (now in Dubrouna Raion, Vitsebsk Voblast, Belarus (former "Lithuania", now Belarus) in 1862 to Mordechai Brainin the son of Azriel Brainin and had moved to Berlin by 1901. thumbnail At different times Brainin contributed to the periodicals Ha-Meliz, Ha-Toren, Ha-Zefirah, Ha-Maggid, and Ha-Shiloah. In 1895 he issued a periodical under the title "Mi-Mizrah u-Mi-Ma-arab" (From East and West), of which only four numbers appeared.
Brainin was the author of several pamphlets, the most important of which were his sketch of Perez Smolenskin's life and works (Warsaw, 1896); and a translation of M. Lazarus' essay on Jeremiah (Warsaw, 1897). He also wrote about one hundred biographical sketches of modern Jewish scholars and writers.
To "Ahiasaf" Brainin contributed the following articles:
He also contributed to the same periodical the following biographical sketches:
He died in New York. The city of Tel Aviv-Yafo in Israel has named a street after Reuben Brainin to honor his memory.