Monday 3 November 2014

BENYOMEN BALZAK

BENYOMEN BALZAK (1849-1930)
He was a rabbi, son of Dovid ha-Levi, born in Russia.  At age fifty, he emigrated to the United States.  He was the author of Torat haadam (The Torah of man) (Warsaw, 1910); and Yudntum kegn kristntum (Judaism against Christianity) (New York, 1912), 96 pp., a polemic concerning the essence of Judaism and Jewish ethics.

Source: Benzion Eisenstadt, Dorot haaaronim (The last generations) (New York, 1941), p. 54.


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