Leibush L. Lehrer (1887–1964) was a leading
Yiddish pedagogue,
writer, philosopher and lyricist. He authored several books on education, psychology, and literature. Born in Warsaw, he emigrated to the United States in 1909. From 1919 until his death, he lectured at the Jewish Teachers Seminary. Lehrer was also involved with the research efforts of
YIVO
YIVO (, , short for ) is an organization that preserves, studies, and teaches the cultural history of Jewish life throughout Eastern Europe, Germany, and Russia as well as orthography, lexicography, and other studies related to Yiddish. Estab ...
as the Secretary for the Section on Psychology and Education.
He was a proponent of the position that Judaism was an entire folk culture, not merely a religion.
Lehrer was the director
and guiding spirit of
Camp Boiberik,
an educational children's camp operated by the Sholem Aleichem Folk Institute in the Hudson valley village of
Rhinebeck, NY, from 1923–1964.
Selected works
*Psikhologye (1919)
*Di moderne idishe shul (1927)
*Shrifṭn far psikhologye un pedagogiḳ (1933)
*Yidishḳeyṭ : un andere problemen (1940)
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Shmuel Niger
Shmuel Niger (also Samuel Niger, pen name of Samuel Charney, 1883-1955) was a Yiddish writer, literary critic and historian and was one of the leading figures of Yiddish cultural work and Yiddishism in pre-revolution Russia.
Life
Shmuel Niger ...
bukh (1958)
*In gayst fun traditsye (1966)
References
1887 births
1964 deaths
American people of Polish-Jewish descent
Yiddish-language writers
YIVO people
Emigrants from Congress Poland to the United States
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