OYZER ROHATINER (d. 1886?)
He was a
follower of the Jewish Enlightenment and a wedding entertainer, he “provided
for Velvele [Velvl Zbarzher], was his right-hand man, his writer, his manager,”
according to Bernard Vakhshteyn. He was
the author of Mayse fun dem rov shalito
un fun zayn gantser svive (Story of the rabbi, may he live long and
happily, and of his entire surroundings) against Rabbi Ornshteyn of Lemberg and
his role in poisoning [non-Orthodox] Rabbi Avrom Cohen (1848). He died in Lemberg.
Sources: Bernard Vakhshteyn, in Filologishe shriftn (Vilna) 2 (1928), col. 5; Meyer Balaban, in Yivo-bleter (New York) 13 (1938), p.
216; Historishe shriftn (YIVO) 2, p.
684; Dov Sadan, Avne miftan, masot al
sofre yidish (Milestones, essays on Yiddish writers), vol. 1 (Tel Aviv:
Perets Publ., 1961), pp. 138-39.
Yekhezkl Lifshits
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