Lazar Jakovlevich Behrmann (, ; September 26, 1830 – April 27, 1893) was a

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educator and editor.

Biography

Lazar Behrmann was born to a

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family in

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(today Jaunjelgava, Latvia) in 1830. He received his early education in the '' ḥeder'' and in the district school of his native town, where he began his vocation as private teacher. In 1854 he settled in

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, where in 1861 he opened a private school for Jewish boys. The Jewish community of

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invited him in 1864 to found its first Jewish school, which remained under his management until his death. From 1869 to 1882 he was instructor in the Jewish religion at the Kolomenskaya Women's College in Saint Petersburg. In 1879 he founded there the weekly

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periodical ''Russki Yevrei'', which he published and edited conjointly with until 1883, and after that with to the end of 1884. He was also the author of ''Osnovy Moiseyeva Zakona'' ('Fundamentals of the Mosaic Law'), a popular guide to Jewish jurisprudence, and of ''Sankt-Peterburgskiya Yevreiskiya Uchilishcha'' ('Jewish Schools in Saint Petersburg'). He died after a long illness on April 27, 1893.

References

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