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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. In Yiddish. 383 pages. 217 x 145 mm. Ex library. Reuben Brainin (Reuven Brainin)( Ruben ben Mordecai Brainin) (March 16, 1862 Ljady (Russian) (now in Dubrouna Raion, Vitsebsk Voblast, Belarus (former "Lithuania", now Belarus) - November 30, 1939 New York City) was a Russian Jewish publicist, biographer and literary critic. He was born to Mordechai Brainin the son of Azriel Brainin and moved to Berlin by 1901. Brainin contributed to the periodicals Ha-Meliz, Ha-Toren, Ha-Zefirah, Ha-Maggid, and Ha-Shiloah. In 1895 he issued a periodical under the title "Mi-Mizrah 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 Perez 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.