A native of Pohorelice, Czech Republic (then in the Austria Hungary Empire), as a student in Brno he founded the Zionist student organization, Veritas. He studied law at the University of Vienna, and became closely associated with Theodor Herzl, helping to organize the first Zionist Congress in 1897. He was on the editorial staff of the Zionist journal Die Welt but at the fifth Zionist Congress in 1901 was one of the founders of the opposition Democratic Faction. Feiwel was also a founder of the publishing house, Juedische Verlag, and himself translated Yiddish poetry into German. He entered a banking business and spent WW1 in Switzerland. From there he moved to London, where he was in the inner circle of policy makers around Chaim Weizmann. From 1919 to 1926, he was executive director of Keren HaYesod, the Zionist funding arm. From 1933 he lived in Palestine.

Bibliography:

FEIWEL, Berthold. Bertold Faivel: ha-ish u-fo`olo. Pp. 158. Jerusalem: ha-Sifriyah ha-Tsiyonit, 1959.

FEIWEL, Berthold. (Ed.). Junge Harfen, eine Sammlung jungjuedischer Gedichte.Pp. 74 (2). Berlin: Juedischer Verlag, 1903.

FEIWEL, Berthold. Die Judenmassacres in Kischinew. Pp. 102. Berlin: Juedischer verlag, 1903.

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