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Naifeld Binyamin (1891)

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SurnameNaifeld
NameBinyamin
Birth year1891
Birth month11
Birth day5
Birth placeBobruisk
SexM

Naifeld (Neifeld) Binyamin Tevye Televich (5 November 1891, Bobruisk — ?) — educator.

Binyamin Naifeld was born into a lower middle-class family. In 1911, he graduated from the Libau Commercial School, and in May 1916 from the Commercial Institute in Kyiv. In 1925, he completed State Summer Courses. From October 1919, he lived in Liepāja, where he began his teaching career at the A. F. Chink Commercial School, teaching courses in commercial arithmetic and commercial correspondence. He also worked on bookkeeping courses.

From 1922, he taught as an acting teacher at the State Jewish Gymnasium, and from 1923 he served as head of the Primary School of the Liepāja Society of Jewish Culture. He taught Jewish history, Hebrew, and geography, and also worked at the Jewish Vocational School and at the Private Russian Primary and Secondary School of E. V. Budkov. In 1926, he received certification as a fully qualified teacher.

His wife was Ella (née Levinson, born 1890). Their children were Isaak (born 1914) and Solomon (born 1920).

Archival source: Latvian State Historical Archives, Fund 1632, inventory 1, file 14725.