Julius Eisenstein

Julius Eisenstein
J.D. Eisenstein, Orthodox Jewish scholar
Born	(1854-11-12)November 12, 1854 Międzyrzec Podlaski, Congress Poland
Died	May 17, 1956(1956-05-17) (aged 101) New York City, New York
Resting place	Queens, New York City, New York
Nationality	Polish, American
Other names	Judah David Eisenstein, the Ba'al ha-Otzrot
Known for	Hebrew language anthologies, editor of the first Hebrew encyclopedia
Spouse	Rebecca Eisenstein (née Cohen)
Children	Four sons, five daughters
Parent(s)	Zeev Wolf Eisenstein and Toba Bluma Eisenstein (née Barg)
Relatives	Ira Eisenstein, Harry Fishbein
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Julius (Judah David) Eisenstein (November 12, 1854 – May 17, 1956) (Hebrew: יהודה דוד אייזנשטיין) was a Polish-Jewish-American anthologist, diarist, encyclopedist, Hebraist, historian, philanthropist, and Orthodox polemicist born in Międzyrzec Podlaski (known in Yiddish as Mezritch d'Lita), a town with a large Jewish majority in what was then Congress Poland. He died in New York City at the age of 101.