Leibush L. Lehrer (1887 - 1964) was a leading Yiddish pedagogue, writer, philosopher and lyricist. He authored several books on education, psychology, and literature. Born in Warsaw, he emigrated to the United States in 1909. From 1919 until his death, he lectured at the Jewish Teachers Seminary. Lehrer was also involved with the research efforts of YIVO as the Secretary for the Section on Psychology and Education. He was a proponent of the position that Judaism was an entire folk culture, not merely a religion. Lehrer was the director and guiding spirit of

Camp Boiberik Camp Boiberik was a Yiddish cultural summer camp founded by Leibush Lehrer in 1913. In 1923 the camp purchased property in Rhinebeck, New York where it would remain until closing in 1979. It was the first Yiddish secular summer camp in America at ...

, an educational children's camp operated by the Sholem Aleichem Folk Institute in the Hudson valley village of

Rhinebeck, NY Rhinebeck is a village in the town of Rhinebeck in Dutchess County, New York, United States. The population was 2,657 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Poughkeepsie– Newburgh– Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well a ...

, from 1923–1964.

Selected works

*Psikhologye (1919) *Di Moderne idishe shul (1927) *Shrifṭn far psikhologye un pedagogiḳ (1933) *Yidishḳeyṭ : un andere problemen (1940) *

Shmuel Niger Shmuel Niger (also Samuel Niger, pen name of Samuel Charney, 1883-1955) was a Yiddish writer, literary critic and historian and was one of the leading figures of Yiddish cultural work and Yiddishism in pre-revolution Russia. Life Shmuel Niger was ...

bukh (1958) *In gaist fun tradicie (1966)

References

1887 births 1964 deaths American people of Polish-Jewish descent Yiddish-language writers History of YIVO Emigrants from Congress Poland to the United States {{Jewish-hist-stub