GERSHON-SHIMEN
HORNFELD (1838-1906)
He was born in Brisk (Brest),
Lithuania, and later lived in Sevastopol, Crimea, where he worked as a
notary. He graduated from the Zhitomir rabbinical
school and wrote pieces for Hebrew-language newspapers. He was the father of the Russian critic
Arkady Gornfeld. He published in 1867 in
Kol mevaser (Herald) a description of
the Krymchaks. He died in Odessa.
Sources:
Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 1,
cols. 537-38, 792; Entsiklopediya shel
galuyot (Encyclopedia of the Diaspora), vol. 2 (Jerusalem-Tel Aviv, 1954),
p. 294.
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