Career

At the age of thirteen Dobsewitch had written a commentary to the Canticles. In 1874 he removed to Kiev, where he became private tutor to the sons of Brodski and of other wealthy families. He went to the United States in 1891, and lived in New York, leaving it only for a short time in 1895.

Dobsewitch"s chief published work is Ha-Meẓaref (The Refiner), a collection of rationalistic interpretations of various passages of the Aggadah (Odessa, 1870).

Dobsewitch"s two later works, Be-Ḥada Maḥeta (With One Sweep), a collection of articles (Cracow, 1888), and Lo Dubbim we-lo Ya"ar (Neither Bears nor Forest) (Berdyehev, 1890), as well as numerous articles in Hebrew periodicals, are devoted to criticisms directed against Shatzkes, Weissberg, and others He continued his literary activity in the United States, and contributed to Ha-"Ibri, Ner ha-Ma"arabi, and various Yiddish publications.

Some of his correspondence was published in Ha-Modi"a le-Ḥadashim, i., New York, 1900. Short extracts from the last-named work were published in the United States.

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