LEWIN, GERSHON

LEWIN, GERSHON
LEWIN, GERSHON (1868–1939), physician and publicist in Yiddish and Hebrew. Son of a Lublin ḥazzan, Lewin graduated from the faculty of medicine of Warsaw University. In 1891 he joined the group around the writer I.L. Peretz and, encouraged by the latter, was active in propagating popular Jewish culture among the assimilationists. He contributed to the newspaper Haynt, and published articles in Ha-Ẓefirah and Ha-Ẓofeh. Settling in Warsaw in 1895, he participated in Jewish public life and was a member of the executive committees of Ha-Zamir, the Yidishe Kultur-Gezelshaft, and the Jewish health organization toz (Towarzystwo Ochrony Zdrowia). His published works include recollections of I.L. Peretz (1919); In Velt Krig (1923), his memoirs as a medical officer in World War I; In di Alte Gute Tsaytn (1925), memories of his youth; his reminiscences of Shalom Aleichem (1926); Iberlebenishr, Epizodn un Ayndrukn fun Rusish-Yapanishn Krig (1931), memoirs of a physician; and Dos Bukh fun Mayn Lebn (1937). -BIBLIOGRAPHY: J. Glatstein, In Tokh Genumen, 1 (1947), 213–23; J. Shatzky, Geshikhte fun Yidn in Varshe, 3 (1953), 275; LNYL, 5 (1963), 267–8. (Arthur Cygielman)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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