From Volozhin to Jerusalem

Meir Berlin

1933

Where the Fires of Hell Burn

Even in the past, some thirty to forty years ago, when Jewish life in Russia was still very conservative, there was a difference between those cities and towns located deep inside the country—far from the railway and from any waters, that is—and those places that were connected to the world. It is not that in the…

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Creator Bio

Meir Berlin

1880–1949

Meir Berlin, whose name was later Hebraized to Bar-Ilan, was born in Volozhin (Belarus) in 1880, and studied in yeshivas and at the University of Berlin. He joined the Mizrahi movement in 1905. He served as the president of U.S. Mizrahi, and then as the president of the World Mizrahi Center. Berlin settled in Jerusalem in the 1920s, where he founded the daily newspaper Hatzofeh in 1937 and the Entsiklopediya talmudit (Talmudic Encyclopedia) in 1942.

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