Eliezer Dob Liebermann (; 12 April 1820 - 15 April 1895) was a
Russia
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n ''
maskilic'' writer and scholar.
Biography
Liebermann was born in
Pilvischok in the
region of Suwałki. His father was a ''
shoḥet'', and gave him a traditional
Jewish education
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. At the age of twelve he was sent to his uncle
Rabbi Elijah Schick ('Reb Elinke Lider'), then the
rabbi
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of
Amstibove, who instructed him in
Talmud
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and rabbinical literature. In 1838 he went to
Vilna
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and joined the ''
maskilim
The ''Haskalah'', often termed Jewish Enlightenment ( he, השכלה; literally, "wisdom", "erudition" or "education"), was an intellectual movement among the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe, with a certain influence on those in Western Euro ...
''. In about 1844 he settled as a teacher in
Białystok. In 1867 he left to Suwałki, remained there about twenty years, and then returned to Białystok.
He was the author of ''Megillat sefer'', a collection of short stories, essays, fables, and letters, and of ''Tsedaka u-mishpat'', a Hebrew adaptation of
S. D. Luzzatto's ''Lezioni di Teologia Morale Israelitica''. He wrote also ''Ge ḥizzayon'', several works still in manuscript, and a number of articles which he published in various Hebrew periodicals.
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1820 births
1895 deaths
19th-century male writers
Jewish writers from the Russian Empire
Hebrew-language writers
People from Suwałki Governorate
People from Vilkaviškis District Municipality
People of the Haskalah
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