RIFOEL EPSHTEYN (RAPHAEL H. EPSTEIN) (November
1, 1876-September 17, 1957)
He was born in Mikhalove (Michałowo),
Bialystok district, Poland. He studied
in yeshivas. In 1899 he came to the
United States. For a time he worked as a
Hebrew teacher and preacher in St. Paul.
He later moved to Canada, where he worked as teacher in Ottawa and
Montreal. He was a cofounder and a
member if the central committee of the Mizrachi party in Canada. He published articles on religious and ethnic
topics in: Hatsfira (The siren) in
Warsaw; Dos idishe likht (The Jewish
light) in New York; Keneder odler
(Canadian eagle) in Montreal; Der idisher
zhurnal (The Jewish journal) in Toronto; Mizrakhi
vokhenblat (Mizrachi weekly newspaper); and Unzer shtime (Our voice); among others. Many of his articles were included in his religious
texts in Hebrew and Yiddish: Sefer
higayon vetsaḥut (Book of wisdom
and lucidity) (Ottawa, 1943), 212 pp.; Sefer
likute shoshanim (Book of wreath of roses) (Montreal, 1955), 178 pp. He died in Montreal.
Sources:
M. Ginzburg, in Keneder odler
(Montreal) (November 2, 1943; July 14, 1955); Yisroel Rabinovitsh, in Keneder odler (September 20, 1957;
November 5, 1959).
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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