Joshua Lewinsohn
Joshua Lewinsohn was a Russian teacher and writer. He was born in 1833 at
periodicals. He was also for many years a contributor to the German Rigasche Zeitung
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Lewinsohn 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 also wrote numerous articles on Jewish history which appeared in various periodicals.
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- Sokolov, Sefer Zikkaron, p. 64.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Joshua Lewinsohn". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
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