BINYUMIN
ZIV (May 18, 1879-December 12, 1948)
He was born in Shaty (Shat), Kovno
district, Lithuania. He attended
religious primary school and the Telz Yeshiva, and later he studied philosophy
and economics at the Universities of Berlin, Paris, and Königsberg, and
received his doctor of philosophy degree.
He lived afterward in St. Petersburg.
During the Bolshevik uprising (1917-1918), he was sentenced to death and
thus ran off to Latvia where he was professor at Riga University and a leader
in various Jewish associations. In 1934
he moved to Israel. He was a contributor
to: Frimorgn (Morning) in Riga; Vilner tog (Vilna day); Haboker (This morning) and Haarets (The land) in Tel Aviv; and
various newspapers in Russian, German, and other languages. He contributed to the remembrance volume Yahadut latviya (Judaism in Latvia) (Tel
Aviv, 1953). He authored books on economic
problems in Hebrew, Russian, and German.
He died in Tel Aviv.
Sources:
Zalmen reyzen-arkhiv (Zalmen Reyzen
archive) (New York, YIVO); Biblyografishe
yorbikher fun yivo (Bibliographic yearbooks from YIVO) (Warsaw, 1928), see
index; M. Gerts, 25 yor yidishe prese in
letland (25 years of the Yiddish press in Latvia) (Riga, 1933); D. Tidhar,
in Entsiklopedyah leḥalutse hayishuv uvonav (Encyclopedia of the
pioneers and builders of the yishuv), vol. 5 (Tel Aviv, 1952), p. 2216;
Dr. Y. Helman, Y. Mahar, and M. M. Bobe, in Yahadut
latviya (Judaism in Latvia) (Tel Aviv, 1953), see index.
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