1/13 | Yortsayt of Reb Mordkhele
Today in Yiddishkayt… January 13 Yortsayt of Reb Mordkhele (Khayim Chemerinsky), Yiddish Writer & Philologist Khayim Chemerinsky was born in 1862 in Motele, a small town near Pinsk (today, Моталь, Belarus), the youngest child in a large family and the only son. Although the family was religious, they embraced contemporary changes in Jewish life. The daughters in the family were the first in the town to study Hebrew and Chemerinsky studied secular subjects in addition to religious ones and read modern Russian authors. After his marriage, he moved to Krivoy Rog (today in central...
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