DEINARD, EPHRAIM

(1846-1930)

   Bibliographer and Hebrew author of Latvian origin. He worked for much of his life as a bookseller in Odessa. In 1897 he tried unsuccessfully to found an agricul-tural settlement in Nevada. In 1913 he settled in Palestine, but was expelled three years later by the Turks. He then returned to the US and continued his bibliographic work. His writings include: Or Mayer: Catalogue of Old Hebrew Manuscripts and Printed Books of the Library of the Hon. Mayer Sulzberger of Philadelphia and Koheleth America, and a list of Hebrew books published in America between 1735 and 1926. He also wrote polemical books and pamplets on a variety of Jewish topics.