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.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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From Volozhin to Jerusalem
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…