EISENSTADT, MOSES ELEAZAR
- EISENSTADT, MOSES ELEAZAR
- EISENSTADT, MOSES ELEAZAR (1869–1943), rabbi, educator, and
author in Russia and France. Born in Nesvizh, Belo-russia, he studied at
the yeshivah of volozhin , and from 1889 at the university and
Hochschule fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin. He wrote his
doctoral thesis on "Bible Criticism in Talmudic Literature" in 1898.
From 1899 to 1910 Eisenstadt officiated as kazyonny ravvin
(government-appointed rabbi) of Rostov, and from 1911 to 1923 held the
same position in St. Petersburg. He subsequently immigrated to France,
and in 1926 was appointed rabbi of the Ohel Ya'akov community of the
Russian Jews in Paris. He also lectured in modern Hebrew literature at
the rabbinical seminary. When the Nazis occupied Paris, he left for New
York, and in 1942 was appointed rabbi of the Merkaz Beit Yisrael
community of Russian Jews there. From an early age, he published
articles, reviews, and stories in the Jewish press in Hebrew, Yiddish,
Russian, and German. His books include Be-Shuvi el Ereẓ
Moladeti ("On My Return to My Fatherland," 1893), and
Me-Ḥayyei Benei Lita ("From the Lives of the Inhabitants of
Lithuania," 1893). In 1918, he was a member of the editorial board of
the Jewish historical journal He-Avar, published in
Petrograd.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
LNYL, 1 (1956), 66–67; Kressel, Leksikon, 1 (1965), 84.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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