Mr. Abraham Rhinewine, former editor of the “Toronto Hebrew Journal”, has died at Toronto at the age of 45. years.
He had been born at Mezritch, in Poland, and had studied at the Slobodka Yeshibah. He afterwards became active in the Socialist Party, and in consequence was compelled to leave Russia in 1907. He stayed for a year in London, and then went on to Toronto, and became a student at Toronto University.
He contributed to Yiddish Socialist papers, and later to the Zionist and Territorialist Labour press in America. When the “Yiddisher Journal” was started in Toronto in 1913, he became news editor and later its editor-in-chief.
He had also written a number of stories and had published articles in many periodicals, Anglo-Jewish and general.
One of his books, “Palestine in Jewish Life and Literature”, traces the Palestine theme in Jewish creative writing from the days of the Bible, to the latest works of modern Yiddish and Hebrew literature. He published, too, several plays and a book, “The Jew in Canada”.
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