{{Short description|Russian Jewish publicist and biographer}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox writer/doc --> | image = Ruben Brainin.jpg | imagesize = | caption = | birth_date = March 16, 1862 | birth_place = Lyady, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire | death_date = {{death date and age|1939|11|30|1862|3|16}} | death_place = New York City, United States | resting_place = Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery, Montreal<ref>{{cite news|title=Noted Hebrew Writer Is Buried In Montreal: Jewry Suffers Loss In Death Of Reuben Brainin|newspaper=The Canadian Jewish Review|date=December 8, 1939|pages=5, 35|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=mpaOjDK6XBIC&dat=19391208&printsec=frontpage&hl=en}}</ref> | genre = Literary criticism, biography | notableworks = }}
'''Reuben ben Mordecai Brainin''' ({{langx|he|ראובן בריינין|translit=Reuven Brainin}}; March 16, 1862 – November 30, 1939) was a Russian Jewish publicist, biographer and literary critic.
==Biography== Reuben Brainin was born in Lyady, Russian Empire (now Belarus), in 1862 to Mordechai Brainin, the son of Azriel Brainin <ref>Ha-Zfira, March 2, 1895</ref> and had moved to Berlin by 1901.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Hirschfelder|first=M.|title=Zwei neue Lilien'sche Ex-libris|journal=Ost und West|date=November 1901|volume=1|issue=11|pages=823|url=http://www.compactmemory.de/library/seiten.aspx?context=pages&ID_0=7&ID_1=155&ID_2=102&ID_3=1983&ID_4=47027|accessdate=January 19, 2012}}{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
Brainin contributed to the periodicals ''Ha-Meliẓ'', ''Ha-Toren'', ''Ha-Ẓefirah'', ''Ha-Maggid'', and ''Ha-Shiloaḥ''. In 1895 he issued a periodical under the title "Mi-Mizraḥ u-Mi-Ma-arav" (From East and West), of which only four numbers appeared.
Brainin was the author of several pamphlets, the most important of which were his sketch of Pereẓ Smolenskin's life and works (Warsaw, 1896); and a translation of M. Lazarus' essay on Jeremiah (Warsaw, 1897). He also wrote about one hundred biographical sketches of modern Jewish scholars and writers. He was the first biographer of Theodor Herzl<ref>[http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Brainin_Reuven Re'uven Brainin]</ref> He died in New York City.
==Published works== To "Aḥiasaf" Brainin contributed the following articles: * "Ilane Sraḳ" (Barren Trees) (i. 32) * "Bar Ḥalafta" (ii. 71) * "Dappim Meḳuṭṭa'im" (Loose Leaves) (v. 120).
He also contributed to the same periodical the following biographical sketches: * Moritz Lazarus (iv. 214) * Rabbi Moritz Güdemann (iv. 219) * Theodor Herzl (v. 222) * Israel Zangwill (v. 233) * Max Nordau (v. 247)
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== Further reading == * {{JewishEncyclopedia|article=Brainin, Ruben|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1388&letter=B|author=Herman Rosenthal & I. George Dobsevage}} ** Chaim David Lippe, ''Bibliographisches Lexicon'' s.v.; ** Moïse Schwab, ''Répertoire des Articles d'Histoire et de Littérature Juive'', part i, s.v. * Simon Rawidowicz, ''Brainin, Ruben'', ''Jüdisches Lexikon'', Berlin 1927, vol. 1, col. 1134–1135
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