NISN
HALEVI LEVINSKI
He was born in Snyadove (Śniadowo),
Lomzhe district, Russian Poland. He was
the son of the local rabbi. He attended
religious elementary school and yeshivas, later serving as rabbi in various
communities in Lithuania and Poland. He
was the author of: Amude bet yisrael
(Foundations of the House of Israel) (Warsaw, 1891), 82 pp.; Haemet vehashalom (Truth and peace)
(Warsaw, 1912), 106 pp.; Maayan gamin
(Fountain of gardens) (Pyetrikov, 1923), 96 pp., translations of midrashim with
his own commentary in Yiddish; Neḥmad
venaim
(Delightful and pleasant) (Pyetrikov, 1924), 68 pp.; Siḥot arevot (Pleasant conversations), “the sweet chats about contemporary,
dark, non-kosher items, and this has become entangled in lovely stories that
will bring readers great joy” (Pyetrikov, 1925), 63 pp. A variety of words and expressions from
Levinski’s texts were cited in the first volume of the Groyser verterbukh fun der yidisher shprakh (Great dictionary of
the Yiddish language) (New York, 1961).
Sources:
Bet eked sefarim; materials in the
library of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in New York.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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