ZEV RABINOVITSH (WOLF ZEEV RABINOWITSCH)

ZEV RABINOVITSH (WOLF ZEEV RABINOWITSCH) (December 11, 1900-1991)

            He was born in Pinsk.  He graduated from medical school in Königsberg.  He worked there as a doctor, later in Berlin and Köln.  In 1933 he made aliya to the land of Israel and practiced medicine in Haifa.  He published research work in Hebrew, English, and German.  In Yiddish he published articles on popular medicine in Folks-gezunt (Popular health) in Vilna (1926-1928) and historical articles in Pinsker shtime (Voice of Pinsk) (1930-1938) and in Historishe shriftn (Historical writings) (Vilna) 2 (1937).  He edited Pinsk, sefer edut vezikaron (Pinsk, volume of testimony and memoir) (Tel Aviv, 1973-1977) in Yiddish, Hebrew, and English.

Source: Getzel Kressel, Leksikon hasifrut haivrit (Handbook of Hebrew literature), vol. 2 (Merḥavya, 1967).

Ruvn Goldberg

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 495.