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Mikhail Grinberg

Mikhail Grinberg is an Israeli publisher and historian who founded the Gesharim publishing house and worked to revive Jewish life in the Soviet Union.

born 1951Founding the Gesharim publishing houseReviving Jewish life in the USSRRestoring graves of Hasidic rabbis

Occupation: publisher

Mikhail Grinberg was born in 1951 in Soviet Union

Grinberg was born in 1951 in the Soviet Union to a Jewish family that kept religious traditions. His father served in the Great Patriotic War as a communications company commander.

Because of his religious beliefs, he was expelled from the Komsomol in 1970. In 1973 he was expelled from the Ryazan Pedagogical Institute after a report about his Jewish wedding. He later finished his history degree at the Moscow Correspondence Pedagogical Institute and also earned a candidate degree in history.

From the late 1970s he restored the synagogue and community life in Malakhovka near Moscow. In 1986, at the request of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, he arranged the reburial of Rabbi Mordehai Dubin and then restored the graves of several rabbis. In 1990 he helped restore Jewish life in Lviv.

He immigrated to Israel in 1988 and lives in Efrat. In 1990 he founded the publishing house Gesharim, which has published more than 600 books. In 1992 he became the first rector of the Jewish University in Moscow.