Eliezer Dob Liebermann
(April 12, 1820-April 15, 1895) was a Russian
Hebrew-language writer of Jewish
He was born in Pilvischok
in the region of Suwałki
. His father was a shohet
, a kosher butcher, and gave him a normal Jewish education. At the age of twelve he was sent to his uncle R. Elijah Schick
("Reb Elinke Lider"), then the rabbi of Amstibove
, who instructed him in Talmud
and rabbinical literature. In 1838 he went to Vilna
and joined the Maskilim
. In about 1844 he settled as a teacher in Białystok
. In 1867 he left to Suwałki, remained there about twenty years, and then returned to Białystok.
Liebermann was the author of Megillat Sefer
, a collection of short stories, essays, fables, and letters, and of Zedek u-Mishpat
, a Hebrew adaptation of S. D. Luzzatto
's "Lezioni di Teologia Morale Israelitica". He wrote also "Ge Hizzayon", and a number of articles which he published in various Hebrew periodicals.
- Ahiasaf, vol. iii. (necrologies, in which he is erroneously called "Jacob");
- Sokolow, Sefer Zikkaron, pp. 57-58, Warsaw, 1890;
- William Zeitlin, Bibl. Hebr. Post-Mendels. p. 211.H. R. P. Wi.