Israel Zinberg
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BornDecember 1873 Edit this on Wikidata
DiedJanuary 1939 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 65–66)
OccupationLiterary historian Edit this on Wikidata

Israel Zinberg (also known as Yisroel Tsinberg; born Sergei Lazarevich Tsinberg) (1873-1939) was a Russian-Jewish chemist and a historian of Jewish literature born in Rivne.[1][2] His works are considered significant in European Jewish Yiddish scholarship. He was not a professional historian by background or training, but worked as a chemical engineer in Petrograd and pursued literary history as an "avocation."[3] He was a member of the St. Petersburg school of Jewish scholars along with Simon Dubnow.[1] He drew on the works of Moritz Steinschneider and Ber Borokhov as well as Solomon Birnbaum, Maks Erik, and Max Weinreich.[4]

Publications

  • Zinberg, Israel (1973). A History of Jewish Literature. Press of Case Western Reserve University. ISBN 978-0-8295-0241-1. (multiple volumes)

References

  1. 1 2 Wischnitzer, Mark (1943). "Sergey (Israel) Zinberg (1873-1943)". Jewish Social Studies. 5 (4): 411–413. ISSN 0021-6704. JSTOR 4464552.
  2. ↑ "YIVO | Tsinberg, Yisroel". yivoencyclopedia.org. Retrieved 2023-12-25.
  3. ↑ Martin, Bernard (1975). "Israel Zinberg and His Geshikhte Fun Der Literatur Bay Yidn". Hebrew Abstracts. 16: 19–23. ISSN 0438-895X. JSTOR 27908133.
  4. ↑ Frakes, Jerold C. (1990). "Review of Jiddische Sprachgeschichte: Versuch einer neuen Grundlegung". The German Quarterly. 63 (2): 288–289. doi:10.2307/406353. ISSN 0016-8831. JSTOR 406353.


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