RABINOWITZ, ẒEVI HA-COHEN
- RABINOWITZ, ẒEVI HA-COHEN
- RABINOWITZ, ẒEVI HA-COHEN (1832–1889), science popularizer.
Born in Linkavo, in the Kaunas district of Lithuania (then Russia),
Rabinowitz early showed an inclination for mathematics and physics, and
from 1852 began to prepare a comprehensive Hebrew work which was to
encompass all the fields of physics, with his own notes.
Because of financial difficulties, he only published one volume,
Sefer ha-Menuḥah ve-ha-Tenu'ah (1867). He later wrote other
books on mathematics, magnetism, chemistry, and steam engines, thus
enriching Hebrew terminology in these fields and bringing them to the
attention of Hebrew readers. He also published many articles on these
subjects in Ha-Meliẓ, and in Russian in several newspapers
and periodicals which he edited and published between the late 1870s and
1885. Even after the pogroms of the 1880s he remained convinced that
education was the solution to the Jewish problem in Russia. He died in
St. Petersburg.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Kressel, Leksikon, 2 (1967), 821; Waxman, Literature, 3
(19602), 331.
(Getzel Kressel)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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