Isaac Baer Levinsohn
Writer and hebraist
Isaac Baer Levinsohn, also known as the Ribal, was a Jewish scholar of Hebrew, a satirist, a writer and Haskalah leader. He has been called "the Mendelssohn of Russia." In his Bet Yehudah, he formulated a philosophy and described Jewish... Wikipedia
Born: October 13, 1788, Kremenets', Ukraine
Died: February 13, 1860 (age 71 years), Volhynia
Books: Éfés DammîM. a Series of Conversations at Jerusalem, Éfés Dammîm. A Series of Conversations at Jerusalem Between a Patriarch of the Greek Church and a Chief Rabbi of the Jews, Concerning the Malicious Charge Against the Jews of Using Christian Blood. Translated From the Hebrew as a Tribute to the Memory..., Éfés Dammîm: A Series of Conversations at Jerusalem Between a Patriarch of the Greek Church and a Chief Rabbi of the Jews, Concerning the Malicious Charge Against the Jews of Using Christian Blood, and more