HILLEL-GERSHON
GRAYEVSKI
He lived in Bialystok. He was a Hebrew teacher and a follower of the
Jewish Enlightenment, knowledgeable in Tanakh, a Hebrew grammarian, a community
leader, and a popular speaker. He worked
on behalf of Jewish education, and he would appear in public for Friday evening
gatherings in Bialystok. He published Otsar beurim (A treasury of
commentaries), “drawn from various commentators on the Tanakh” (Lomzhe, 1913),
169 pp. In Yiddish, he wrote a pamphlet
on Hebrew grammar, Der kliger khaver un
ratgeber in lebn (The wise friend and counsellor in life), in two parts
(Bialystok, 1936), 64 pp.; and Der
sharshziniker khaver (The spirited friend), 400 spirited phrases for all
sorts of people (Bialystok, 1938), 64 pp.
He was killed by the Germans in the Bialystok ghetto.
Sources:
A. Sh. Hershberg, Pinkes byalistok
(Records of Bialystok), vol. 1 (New York, 1949); Byalistoker leksikon (Bialystok handbook) (Bialystok, 1935).
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