ELYE-AKIVE RABINOVITSH (May 13, 1862-April 16, 1917)
Born in
Shilel (Šilalė), Lithuania, he was a rabbi and the son
of a rabbi. He was well known by the
name “Poltaver rov” (Poltava rabbi), and he was among the leaders of extreme Orthodoxy
in the Russian empire. He wrote mainly
in Hebrew, but from October 1914 he switched his weekly newspaper Hamodia (The herald) (Poltava, 1911-1915) to
Yiddish “so that
all strata of our people will be able to read it…and everyone understands and
is unashamed of our Jewish mother tongue.” He died in Poltave (Poltava), Ukraine.
Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 4; Getzel Kressel, Leksikon hasifrut haivrit (Handbook of Hebrew literature), vol. 2
(Merḥavya, 1967).
Berl Cohen
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