FELDBERG, LEON

FELDBERG, LEON (1910– ), South African newspaper publisher and editor. Son of the rabbi of Krok, Lithuania, he went to yeshivot in Ponevezh and Slobodka, and received a rabbinical diploma. He started his journalistic career in Riga, working for Yiddish newspapers. In 1929, he emigrated to South Africa and, after serving as a minister and teacher, went into business. In 1936 he established the weekly South African Jewish Times, which he edited until 1969. He also set up a printing and publishing plant and issued the South African Jewish Year Book (1960, 1961. and South African Jewry (1965, 1967). (Lewis Sowden)