BETSALEL
YEVNIN (EWNIN) (b. ca. 1840).
He was born in Grodno, into a
rabbinical family. He studied with his
father, the brilliant Avraham Yonah of Horodno, and in Lithuanian
yeshivas. Around 1880 he moved to the
United States. He was a rabbi and orator
in New York, Chicago, and Milwaukee. He
published articles in Di yidishe gazetten
(The Jewish gazette) in New York, and polemical works—in Yiddish and Hebrew—against
Reform Judaism and against the anarchist movement: Lemazkeret (As a remembrance) (New York, 1892), 25 pp.; Hashkem vedaber, gezamelte erfahrungen in
aller frihe, der allteglikhen shprekhenden fakten betsiglikh dem yudenthum in
amerika (Wake up and talk, collected experiences in much earlier, daily
stunning facts regarding Judaism in America), part 1 (Chicago, 1895), 36 pp.,
part 2 (Milwaukee, 1903), 32 pp.
Sources:
Froym Daynard, Kehilat amerika (American community) (St. Louis, Missouri, 1926), p. 70;
Lea Mishkin, Pinkas shikago (Records
of Chicago) (1952), p. 117.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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