Arieh Leib Gordon

Arie-Leib Gordon was Shlomo Gordon's first born son, and was the only one who carried his name and passed it down to his offspring.

 He studied in a Heder and later in Rozhinoi's Yeshiva in Russia.

 At the age of 21 he was awarded a rabbinical diploma by Rabbi Yitzhak Elhanan Spector of Kovna.

 He wrote an interpretation of Torah and "Sidur" passages.

 He taught in a Yeshiva and wrote well-known Hebrew grammar textbooks. 

 He studied extra-curriculum subjects, such as Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics.

A year after he got married to Haya Rivka Zilkind, he left home and went to study at the Yeshiva in Volizhin and then moved to Berlin, where he received a chemical engineering diploma in 1878.

 He returned to Russia, and was instrumental in compiling dictionaries in Russian, German and French.

 He immigrated to Jaffa in 1891 together with his wife, his married son Jacob and his daughter Batia.

 In Jaffa he served as a teacher and as an activist in the Jewish Community Committee, with Meir Dizengoff (later,the first mayor of Tel-Aviv) and others.

 He was appointed teacher of Hebrew and Mathematics, and later principal of the first Baron Rothschild school in Petach-Tikva.

 Every summer he abandoned his teaching activities, and worked in the Rishon-Le-Zion wineries.

 He served as the administrative director of the “Mea Shearim” Yeshiva in Jerusalem in the years 1910-1911.

 His son and wife died, and he returned to Petach-Tikva to live with his daughter. 

 Shortly after, he died in 1912 and was buried in Petach-Tikva.

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