YOYSEF RABINOVITSH (September 23, 1837-May 12, 1899)
He was
born in Orgeyev (Orhei), Bessarabia, descendant of a Hassidic family. He was among the most active of “Ḥoveve-tsiyon” (Lovers of
Zion). He later separated himself from
the movement and formed a sect of Jewish Christians (“New Testament Israelites”),
ultimately converting in 1885. His
literary heritage in Yiddish is a collection of missionary poems entitled Fersheydene lieder fun a emesen yuden-fraynd
(Various poems of a true friend of the Jews) (Leipzig, 1885). He died in Leipzig.
Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 4.
Berl Cohen
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