Yehuda Steinberg
Yehuda Steinberg (1863-1908), author, born into a Hasidic family in Lipcani, Moldova (then in Bessarabia, part of the Russian Empire). He was early attracted to Haskala and taught himself secular subjects. His first successful publications were a book of proverbs and a children's story book. For a time he lived in Edineti and in 1897 he became a teacher in Leovo. Bad health made him give up teaching and he moved to Odessa in 1905. Steinberg wrote in Hebrew and Yiddish and he was the author of many stories as well as textbooks. His stories included children's tales, drawn from the life of his time, and Hasidic stories reflecting a positive attitude towards Hasidism. After his death his collected works were published in six volumes.