Monday 19 December 2016

YIKHEZKL BAR YITSKHOK (YEḤEZKEL BEN ISAAC)

YIKHEZKL BAR YITSKHOK (YEḤEZKEL BEN ISAAC)
            He came from Mariopil, Crimean district, Russia.  In his youth he moved to the United States and worked there as a Hebrew teacher, a personal assistant to his rebbe, and a preacher in New York.  He authored the small religious text, Poraḥat hagefenyom yizre’el (Bloom of the vine, Jezreel day), in Hebrew and stylized Yiddish, published in booklets with a foreword in which he wrote: “Here will be explained the day when the Lord will bring together his widely dispersed people,” explained according the book of Daniel and other sources literally and homiletically, part 1 (New York, 1910), 31 pp., part 2 (New York, 1913), 16 pp.
Khayim Leyb Fuks


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