Английская Википедия:Isaac Kaminer
Isaac ben Abraham Kaminer (Шаблон:Lang-he, Yitsḥak ben Avraham Kaminer; 1834 – 30 March 1901) was a Russian Empire Jewish Hebrew-language poet, satirist, and physician.
Biography
Isaac ben Abraham Kaminer was born in May 1834 in Levkiev in right-bank Ukraine, near Zhitomir. Drawn into the Haskalah movement in his youth, he left the Ukraine for Vilna, where he associated with maskilim, in particular with Samuel Joseph Fuenn.Шаблон:R He rejoined his wife and newborn child in Zhitomir in 1854, where he taught at the government school for Jews until 1859.Шаблон:R He studied mathematics and medicine at the University of Kiev, graduating as a physician in 1865.Шаблон:R
While in Kiev, Kaminer inclined toward socialism and joined the circles of Aaron Liebermann and Judah Leib Levin. His two daughters married revolutionaries and his home served as a meeting place and hideout.Шаблон:R Russian revolutionary leader Pavel Axelrod, who married Kaminer's daughter, claimed he first came across Das Kapital in Kaminer's home.Шаблон:R After the pogroms of the 1880s he joined the Ḥibbat Zion movement and became an ardent Zionist.Шаблон:R
Kaminer served as a physician in Kiev until the end of the 1870s.Шаблон:R Informants, searches, and investigations, as well as the deaths of his sons and his own financial decline, forced him to leave Kiev.Шаблон:R He moved to Monasterishche in the Chernigov Governorate in 1880, where he worked as physician for the governate's administrative council. He was later made a member of a commission for the investigation of the conditions of the Russian Jews, and he so displeased the officials by his impassioned defence of his coreligionists that he was ordered back to the government of Kiev. In 1901 Kaminer's health broke down, and he went for medical treatment to Bern, where he died as the result of an operation.
Work
Kaminer wrote verse satires for the Hebrew socialist papers Ha-Emet and Asefat Ḥakhamim, criticizing supporters of the Haskalah, the Ḥasidim, and rich communal leaders. Among the most noteworthy of his contributions to Hebrew periodicals were "Baraitot de Rabbi Yitsḥaḳ," a series of satirical articles, published in Ha-Kol; "Mi-Sidduro Shel Rabbi Yitsḥak," in Ha-Shaḥar; and a series of elegies bewailing the sufferings of the Russian Jews, in Ha-Asif.
In 1878, he published Kinot mi-Sidduram shel Benei Dan (Шаблон:Lang-he), a satirical poem on the social condition of the Russian Jews, and Seder Kapparot le-Va'al Takse (Шаблон:Lang-he), a satirical poem against the farmers of the meat-tax in Russia.Шаблон:R A poem written by him on his death-bed entitled "Viddui" was published in Ha-Shiloaḥ in January 1902.
Selected publications
References
Шаблон:Jewish Encyclopedia Шаблон:Reflist
External links
- Kaminer's gravestone at the Jüdischen Friedhof Bern
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