Elias Schwarzfeld, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Elias Schwarzfeld

French writer

Date of Birth: 07-Mar-1855

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1915

Profession: historian, translator, linguist

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Elias Schwarzfeld or Schwartzfeld (Hebrew: ????? (?????) ?????????; March 7, 1855 – 1915) was a Moldavian, later Romanian Jewish historian, essayist, novelist and newspaperman, also known as a political activist and philanthropist.
Writing in several languages (Romanian, Yiddish, French), he focused his studies on the Romanian Jewish community, while steadily publishing articles and brochures which confronted antisemitism.
The brother of literary historian Moses Schwarzfeld, Elias was the uncle of poet-philosopher Benjamin Fondane. Harassed and expelled by Romanian authorities, Schwarzfeld settled in France and became a French citizen.
While pursuing his literary and scientific activities, he also worked as an assistant to Maurice de Hirsch, managing his various philanthropic projects and, after 1891, the Jewish Colonization Association.