Julius Eisenstein was a Polish-Jewish-American writer born in Międzyrzec Podlaski, a city in Biała Podlaska County, Lublin Voivodeship, Congress Poland. As a child in Poland, he was educated in Talmud by his grandfather, Azriel Zelig. Eisenstein emigrated in 1872 to the United States at the age of 17, settled in New York, and married the following year. He became a successful businessman, but lost much of his fortune in a failed effort to establish an agricultural colony for Jewish immigrants in New Jersey. Eisenstein was a lover of the Hebrew language, and established America's first society for the Hebrew language, called Shocharei Sfat Ever. He was also the first to translate into Hebrew and Yiddish the Constitution of the United States. Other early writings of his are Ma'amare Bamasoret, ib. 1897, and The Classified Psalter, Hebrew text with a new translation. He also made an attempt to translate and explain a modified text of the Shulhan Arukh. Eisenstein took a prominent part in the controversy concerning the Kolel America, a society for the collection of funds for the poor Jews of Palestine, and was one of the leaders in the movement to arrange that the money contributed in the United States should go primarily to former residents of America. Wikipedia [ - ]

Julius Eisenstein was a Polish-Jewish-American writer born in Międzyrzec Podlaski, a city in... [ + ]