SHMUEL-MENAKHEM
HALEVI FAYN (SAMUEL M. FINE) (1880-November 3, 1938)
He was
born in Riteve (Rietavas), Lithuania. He was leader in Mizrachi and a
preacher. In 1906 he became the rabbi in
Apaščia, near Kovno, and later in Vladimir-Volinsk (Volodymyr Volyns’kyi), Moscow, and Tver. After WWI he came to the United States. In 1928 he became rabbi in Detroit. He authored religious texts in Hebrew and in
Yiddish, among them: Yalkut shmuel (Selections
by Shmuel) (St. Louis, 1935), 112 pp., Etan
shmuel (Might of Shmuel) (St. Louis, 1934), 112 pp., and Zikhron shmuel (Memory of Samuel) (St.
Louis, 1931-1932), in Hebrew; and Fun
eybigen kval, erklehrungen af file parshes fun der toyre (From an eternal source, explanations
of many portions of the Torah), with a preface by A. L. Gelman (St. Louis,
1933-1935), 96 pp., and Di zikhere
veg, beobkhtungen un erklehrungen af file problemen in yudentum (The sure
pathway, observations and explanations of many problems in Judaism) (Detroit,
1938), 96 pp., in Yiddish
Source: Ohale shem
(The tents of Shem) (Pinsk, 1912).
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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