Leibush Lehrer

Leibush L. Lehrer
Born	1887-04-06 Warsaw
Died	1964-09-17 New York, NY
Occupation	Yiddish educator and lyricist

Leibush L. Lehrer (1887 Warsaw - 1964 New York)^[1] was a leading^[2] Yiddish pedagogue,^[3][4] writer, philosopher and lyricist. He authored several books on education, psychology, and literature. Born in Warsaw, he emigrated to the United States in 1909.^[5] From 1919 until his death, he lectured at the Jewish Teachers Seminary. Lehrer was also involved with the research efforts of YIVO as the Secretary for the Section on Psychology and Education.^[6][7] He was a proponent of the position that Judaism was an entire folk culture, not merely a religion.^[8]

Lehrer was the director^[9] and guiding spirit of Camp Boiberik,^[10] an educational children's camp operated by the Sholem Aleichem Folk Institute in the Hudson valley village of Rhinebeck, NY, from 1923-1964.^[11]

Selected Works

• Psikhologye (1919)
• Di Moderne idishe shul (1927)
• Shrifṭn far psikhologye un pedagogiḳ (1933)
• Yidishḳeyṭ : un andere problemen (1940)
• Shmuel Niger bukh (1958)
• In gaist fun tradicie (1966)

References

1. Marcus, Jacob Rader; Daniels, Judith M., Concise Dictionary of American Jewish Biography, p. 364
2. Morris Norman Kertzer (1967). Today's American Jew. McGraw-Hill. p. 196. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
3. Robert R. Mathisen (2006). Critical Issues in American Religious History. Baylor University Press. pp. 621–. ISBN 978-1-932792-39-3. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
4. "In Memoriam Leibush Lehrer". Journal of Jewish Education 35 (3): 132–134. 1965. doi:10.1080/0021642650350302. ISSN 1524-4113.
5. "Leibush L. Lehrer. Prominent Jewish Educator, Dies in New York; Was 77". JTA. September 18, 1964. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
6. James R. Dow (1994). The Nazification of an Academic Discipline: Folklore in the Third Reich. Indiana University Press. pp. 72–. ISBN 978-0-253-31821-3. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
7. Cecile Esther Kuznitz (2010). "YIVO". YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern European. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
8. Frakes, Jerold C. (2007), "Lehrer, Leibush", Encyclopaedia Judaica 12: 617, retrieved 2013-02-06
9. Krasner, Jonathan B. (2011). "Passionate Pioneers: The Story of Yiddish Secular Education in North America, 1910–1960 (review)". American Jewish History 96 (3): 225–227. doi:10.1353/ajh.2011.0000. ISSN 1086-3141.
10. Isidore David Passow; Samuel Tobias Lachs (1972). Gratz College Annual of Jewish Studies. Gratz College. p. 113. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
11. Dawidowicz, Lucy (1989). From That Place And Time: A Memoir, 1938-1947. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-02674-4.