Monday 3 June 2019

SHIYE RUBINTSHIK (JOSHUA RUBINCHEK)


SHIYE RUBINTSHIK (JOSHUA RUBINCHEK)
            He lived in Minsk.  He authored Sefer haen, hu inukh nearim (The book of charm, on the education of boys) (Vilna: Fain Rozenkrantz, 1868), 30 pp.  The author takes Tanakh language and explains in a folkish Yiddish.  At the end there appears: “Rules of spelling Yiddish masculine and feminine nouns, useful old-style words, [and] household remedies.”  He also published: Seyfer moshl vekhide (Book of parable and riddles) (Vilna, 1985), 23 pp.

Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 4 (under “Rubentshik”).
Berl Cohen


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