Yehuda Gur
Yehuda Goor (Hebrew: יְהוּדָה גוּר; 31 December 1862 – 21 January 1950), born Yehuda Leib Grozovski (Hebrew: יְהוּדָה לֵיבּ גְרָזוֹבְסקי) was a Russian-born Israeli linguist, educator, writer, and translator. He received the Bialik Prize for Jewish Thought in 1946.
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| Born | 31 December 1862 Pogost, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 21 January 1950 (aged 87) Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel |
| Resting place | Trumpeldor Cemetery |
| Notable awards | Bialik Prize (1946) |
Biography
Yehuda Grozovski was born in Pogost, Minsk Governorate, in 1862. After having attended the Volozhin yeshiva, Grozovski studied pedagogics in the Institute for Hebrew Teachers at Vilna. At age 27, he emigrated to Palestine, teaching Hebrew in various places; in 1896, he received an appointment as a teacher of Hebrew in the agricultural school of Jaffa. Three years later, he moved to Mikveh Israel, and filled the same office there.
He moved to Beirut in 1906, where he worked for the Anglo-Palestine Bank. He returned to Jaffa in 1911 to become the manager of the bank's branch there. He retained this position until 1929.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Franco, M. (1904). "Grozovski, Judah Löb ben Isaiah Reuben". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 98–99.