Micha Joseph Berdyczewski
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MICHA JOSEPH BERDYCZEWSKI
Born, 1865, in Berschad, Podolia, Southwestern Russia; educated in
Yeshibah of Volozhin; studied also modern literatures in his youth; has
been living alternately in Berlin and Breslau; Hebrew, Yiddish, and
German writer, on philosophy, aesthetics, and Jewish literary, spiritual,
and timely questions; contributor to Hebrew periodicals; editor of
Bet-Midrash, supplement to Bet-Ozar ha-Sifrut; contributed Ueber den
Zusammenhang zwischen Ethik und Aesthetik to Berner Studien zur
Philosophie und ihrer Geschichte; author of two novels, Mibayit u-Mihuz,
and Mahanaim; a book on the Hasidim, Warsaw, 1900; Juedische Ketobim vun
a weiten Korov, Warsaw; Hebrew essays on miscellaneous subjects, eleven
parts, Warsaw and Breslau (in course of publication).