Joshua ben Aaron Zeitlin
Appearance
Joshua ben Aaron Zeitlin (October 10, 1823, in
Jewish and Russian
scholar and philanthropist.
While he was still young his parents removed to
St. Petersburg, and afterward settled in Moscow, where he became prominent as a benefactor of Talmudic students and Maskilim. During the Russo-Turkish war he was a contractor for the Russian army, and on August 1, 1879, Czar Alexander II
awarded him a medal in recognition of his services.
In 1883 Zeitlin left Russia and settled in Dresden, where he collected a large library, which he placed at the disposal of Talmudic students.
In the beginning of 1887 he undertook a journey to the
Jewish antiquities, as well as in the agricultural colonies of Palestine
, to which he bequeathed 50,000 francs, in addition to many bequests to educational institutions.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
M. Seligsohn (1901–1906). "Joshua ben Aaron Zeitlin". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.