Joshua Lewinsohn was a Russia

Russia

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n teacher and writer. He was born in 1833 at Vyeshiuti, in the Kovno region. He received his Talmud

Talmud

The Talmud is a central text of mainstream Judaism. It takes the form of a record of rabbinic discussions pertaining to Jewish law, ethics, philosophy, customs and history....

ical education at Zhagory, in the house of his uncle Simon Hurvitz, and graduated in 1865 from the Gymnasium of Mitau, remaining there until 1874, when he was appointed inspector of the Jewish school at Tukum, Courland

Courland

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. His first articles in Hebrew appeared in "Ha-Maggid" in 1857; and since then he has contributed extensively to that paper and to "Ha-Melitz," "Ha-Shachar," and other Hebrew periodicals. He was also for many years a contributor to the German "Rigasche Zeitung."

Lewinsohn has published: "Eretz Russia u-Melo'ah" (Wilna, 1868), a geography and topography of Russia, "Toledot Anshe Shem be-Yisrael," biographies of about fifty Jewish authors; and "Toledot Sechar ha-Yehudim" (in "Ha-Shachar"), a history of Jewish commerce. He has likewise written numerous articles on Jewish history

Jewish history

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which have appeared in various periodicals.