SHIMSHEN
TENIN (b. 1857)
He was born in Foltichen (Fălticeni),
Romania. He studied in religious primary
school and yeshiva, and
received ordination into the rabbinate from the rabbi of Buhuşi. For a time he was a rabbinical judge in the
town of Găești,
and from 1889 he was the rabbi of Bârlad. He was the author of
religious texts in Hebrew with stylized Yiddish, among them: Midot ḥakhamim (Character of the sages),
“moral instructions and stories of our wise men drawn from the Talmud and
Midrash, which teach good morality and behavior with people” (Sighet-Marmației, 1909), 66 pp.; and Ziv hashemesh (Sunshine) (Sighet-Marmației, 1910), 44 pp.
Sources:
Sh. N. Gotlib, Ohale shem (The tents
of Shem) (Pinsk, 1912), p. 525; Naftali Ben-Menaḥem, Misifrut
yisrael beungariya (From the Jewish literature of Hungary) (Jerusalem,
1958), pp. 177, 183.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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