BUNIN, ḤAYYIM ISAAC

BUNIN, ḤAYYIM ISAAC: BUNIN, ḤAYYIM ISAAC (1875–1943), author and teacher. Bunin was born in Gomel, Belorussia. He spent most of his life as a wandering teacher in Russia, Lithuania, and Poland, settling in Warsaw in 1929. Bunin devoted himself in particular to research on Ḥabad Ḥasidism, on which he first published a series of essays and studies in Ha-Shilo'aḥ (1913–15, 1928, 1929, 1931). His monumental work, Mishneh Ḥabad, mainly a compilation from the sources and sayings of its leaders, appeared in installments from 1932 to 1936. His publicist writings and literary compositions were published in the Hebrew and Yiddish press after World War I in the journals Ha-Ẓefirah, Ha-Mizraḥi, and Ha-Toren, among others. In 1922 in Lodz he published and edited a journal entitled She'ar Yashuv. He also published Limmudei ha-Yahadut ("Instruction in Judaism," 1917) and his Ketavim (1936). He perished in treblinka during the Holocaust. (Esther (Zweig) Liebes)

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Bunin, Hayyim Isaac — (1875 1943) Belorussian author and teacher. He settled in Warsaw in 1929. A follower of the Habad movement, he published studies of Habad Hasidism. His Mishneh Habad describes Habad doctrines and applies them to modern life … Dictionary of Jewish Biography
LODZ — (Yid. Lodskh; Ger. Litzmanstadt), city in central Poland, center of the textile industry. In 1793 there were 11 Jews in Lodz; by 1809 (when the city was under Prussian rule) the number had risen to 98. A community was organized at that time and a … Encyclopedia of Judaism
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SHNEUR ZALMAN OF (Liozna-) LYADY — (1745–1813), founder of chabad Ḥasidism. According to family traditions he was born in Liozna, Belorussia, on the 18th of Elul. After his marriage in 1760 he devoted himself to Torah study. Concluding that he knew a little about learning, but… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
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