Aryeh Löb Feinstein

Aryeh Löb Feinstein
Born	(1821-12-06)6 December 1821 Damachev, Russian Empire
Died	20 January 1903(1903-01-20) (aged 81) Damachev, Russian Empire
Language	Hebrew

Aryeh Löb Feinstein (Hebrew: אריה ליב פיינשטיין; December 6, 1821 – January 20, 1903) was a Russian Jewish scholar.

Biography

Aryeh Löb Feinstein was born in Damachev, Grodno Governorate, in 1821. After devoting many years to the study of the Talmud, he worked as a foreman for a firm in Brest. In his commercial dealings with Christian merchants, he acquired a knowledge of languages. He later established his own successful business, amassing substantial wealth.

Feinstein actively participated in the Jewish community's affairs, serving as its parnas for many years.

Among other works, he was the author of Elef ha-Magen (Warsaw, 1870), a commentary on the Passover Haggadah, and 'Ir Tehillah (Warsaw, 1886), a history of the Jewish community of Brest-Litovsk, co-written with Abraham Marcus Finkelstein.[1]

Selected publications

• Elef ha-Magen (in Hebrew). Warsaw. 1870.
• 'Ir Tehillah (in Hebrew). Warsaw. 1886.
• Tal-piyyot (in Hebrew). Warsaw. 1896.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rosenthal, Herman; Broydé, Isaac (1903). "Feinstein, Aryeh Löb". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 357–358.

1. Zeitlin, William (1890). "Feinstein, Arie Löw". Bibliotheca hebraica post-Mendelssohniana (in German). Leipzig: K. F. Koehler's Antiquarium. p. 83.