BEN-TSIEN AYZENSHTADT (BENZION EISENSTADT)
(March 13, 1873-1951)
Born in Kletsk (Klieck), Byelorussia. He was living in New York from 1903, a Hebrew
writer. In Yiddish, he wrote: Di
yudishe biografishe biblyotek, rabi ayzel kharif un zayne vitsen (The
Jewish biographical library, Rabbi Ayzel Kharif [Khorif] and his jokes), “the
life description of famed gaon, R. Joshua-Isaac Shapiro” (New York, 1904), 19
pp.; Rabi
kalonimus zev visotski (Rabbi Kalonymus
Zev
Wissotzky) (New York, 1904), 18
pp. Among his books in Hebrew: Rabane
minsk vechakhameha (The rabbis and scholars of Minsk) (Vilna, 1898), 72
pp.; Dor rabanav vesofrav (A generation of rabbis and authors), a
history of the rabbis and gaonim (Vilna, 1895), 72 pp.; Ḥakhame yisrael beamerika (Wise men of Israel
in America) (New York, 1903), 112 pp.; Dorot
haaḥaronim (Generations of the later rabbis), vol. 1 (New York, 1913), no.
138-243 (zayen-mem), vol. 2 (Brooklyn, 1933), no. 247-351 (nun-taf); Dema
enai, maamre hasefer (Tears in my eyes, articles for a book) (Brooklyn-New
York, 1935); Sefer letoldot yisrael beamerika (History of Jews in
America) (New York, 1917), 58 pp.; Sefer dabru al lev (Spoken from the
heart), sermons for the holidays (New York, 1927), published by the “Supporters
of Torah in Brownsville”; Sefer anshe hashem beartsot habrit, sefer zikaron
(Famous people in the United States, a memoir) (St, Louis, 1933), 70 pp.; Sefer
kol bichi (A voice crying) (New York, 1934-1935); Beleshoni mila, arbaa
veesrim neumim hagionim (Word on my tongue, twenty-four commonsensical
speeches) (St. Louis, 1934), 39 pp.
These judicious books constituted a kind of biographical dictionary
under various titles. Aside from these,
he published Otsar hatemunot (Treasury of photos), a collection of 150 images
of great men of the previous century (1909).
Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 1; Algemayne
entsiklopedye (General encyclopedia), vol. 2; Mordechai Dantsis, in Tog
(May 20, 1932); Perets Vyernik, in Morgn-zhurnal (April 23, 1933)
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