Lev Borisovich (Leib Berkovich) Jaffe ( June 5, 1876 , Grodno - March 11, 1948 , Jerusalem ) - Russian Jewish poet, translator, editor, Zionist figure. Brother Bezalel Jaffe .
| Leo (Leib) Borisovich Jaffe | |
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| Heb. אריה לייב יפה | |
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| Birth name | Leib Berkovich Jofe |
| Date of Birth | June 5, 1876 |
| Place of Birth | Grodno |
| Date of death | March 11, 1948 (71 years old) |
| Place of death | Jerusalem |
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Biography
Born in Grodno in the family of Berka (Dovber) Gimpelevich Iofe (1838-1902) and Khai-Lei Moishe-Fishelevna (nee Lapina, 1839-1923) [1] . Grandfather, Mordhe-Gimple Jofe, was a rabbi . He received a traditional Jewish education. He studied at the Volozhin yeshiva . In the period from 1897 to 1901 he studied philosophy at the universities of Heidelberg , Freiburg , Leipzig . Organized in Grodno youth group Hovevei Zion . In 1906, at the 3rd All-Russian Conference of Zionists in Helsingfors, he was elected a member of the Central Committee of the Zionist Organization from Vilna . At the 8th Zionist Congress, he was elected a member of the Executive Committee (held this post until 1911). In 1915-1917, together with Alexander Goldstein, he published the newspaper Jewish Life, and in 1917-1919 he was the editor-in-chief of the Safrut publishing house in Moscow . In 1917, after the death of Yehiel Chlenov, he was elected secretary of the Zionist organization in Moscow . In 1919 he was elected chairman of the Zionist Organization of Lithuania . He participated in the publication of the newspapers Letste Nayes, Yiddish Zeitung, and Hashavua in Vilna .
Together with V.F. Khodasevich, he compiled and published Safrut's Collection of Young Jewish Poetry (1918) at his publishing house Safrut; Interlinear translations for the collection were made by Haim Greenberg .
In 1920 he emigrated with his family to Eretz Yisrael . From 1920 - editor, in 1921-1922 - chief editor of the newspaper " Ha-Arets ". From 1926 until the end of his life, he served as director of the Keren A-Yesod Foundation in Jerusalem .
In 1948, Jaffe died in a bomb explosion planted by Arab terrorists in the building of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem .
Wife - Frida Veniaminovna Jaffe (nee Kaplan; 1892–1982), memoirist. Brother - Betzalel Jaffe ( Betzalel Berkovich Jofe )
Perpetuation of memory
Streets in several cities of Israel are named after Leib Yaffe: in Jerusalem, in Be'er Sheva , in Netanya and in Ramat Gan [2] . His name is also called moshav Talmey Jaffe in the south of Israel [3] .
Notes
- ↑ Genealogy data is available on the Jewish Genealogy website JewishGen.org. In the revision tales, the family name is recorded as “Ioffe”, later (in the lists of electors in the State Duma) all sons (Abram, Yakov, Betzalel and Leib) are recorded as “Yaffe”, the surname of parents is recorded as “Yafa”.
- ↑ Arye Leib Jaffe, blessed be his memory, the son of Dov and Khai Leah (Hebrew) (inaccessible link) . A site in memory of citizens who died in terrorist acts. Date of treatment May 24, 2013. Archived March 3, 2016.
- ↑ Talmey Jaffe - Shitufi moshavim (Hebrew) . Moshav Talmey Jaffe on the website of the Israeli labor movement. Date of treatment May 24, 2013. Archived May 25, 2013.
Links
- Jaffe Leib - article from the Electronic Jewish Encyclopedia