MOYSHE
VAYNBERG (b. 1853)
He was born in Bar, Podolia
district, Ukraine. He was a religious
teacher and a community leader. He was
the author of the pamphlet: Yudishe
tsores, oder di gzeyres 856 (Jewish troubles, or the evil decrees of 856 [1096]),
“a historical recounting of Jewish suffering in the times of the Crusades”
(Berdichev, 1900), 66 pp., with a foreword in which the author explains the
goal of the booklet which he adapted from work by Heinrich Graetz, Shimon Bernfeld,
and Kalman Schulman: “Popularized and shortened to enable usage for many of our
people who do not understand any language other than Zhargon [Yiddish].”
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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