Alexander Eliasberg

Alexander Eliasberg (1878–1924) was a Jewish Russian literary historian, translator, editor, and author. He was born in Minsk on July 22, 1878, and died in Berlin on July 26, 1924. From 1902 onward, he lived and worked in Germany. Among the authors he translated were Nikolai Gogol, Alexander Pushkin, Anton Chekhov, Sholem Aleichem, and Yitzhak Leib Peretz. Eliasberg was also a collector of autographs and books.