ELYE
HALEVI LEVIN (ca. 1874-December 21, 1917)
He was born in Dvinsk (Daugavpils), Latvia, the son of a bookseller. He attended religious elementary schools and
yeshivas, including the Volozhin Yeshiva, and he later turned to the Jewish
Enlightenment, became a Hebrew teacher, wandered through various cities and
towns in Poland and Ukraine. In 1908 he
settled in Vilna where he worked as a teacher in Hebrew schools. From 1897 he was publishing pedagogical
articles in: Hashiloaḥ
(The shiloah), Luaḥ
aḥiasef, Hador
(The generation), Haolam (The world),
and the children’s magazines Olam katan
(Little world), Haḥaver
(The friend), and Hashaḥar
(The dawn). He published a reader
entitled Hasafa vehaḥayim (Language and life) (Odessa,
1907), and six issues of the children’s magazine Hanoar (The youth) in Vilna (1913).
He also published poems, stories, and feature pieces in Yiddish and
placed them in Fraynd (Friend), Di bin (The bee), and in the Vilna daily
newspapers, Idishe tsaytung (Jewish
newspaper) in 1909, Der tog (The day)
in 1912, and Letste nayes (Latest
news) in 1917. He died in Vilna.
Source:
Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 2.
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