Rabbi Tovia (Theodore) Preschel (1922-2013)[1] was a Jewish biographer, historian and journalist.
[2] His biographical sketches,[3] some spanning two or more issues, appeared in The Jewish Press for decades.
[5] Preschel's Jewish education while in England included studying with Rabbi Elya Lopian.
[3] Somewhat after the war he moved to Israel, where he began his career as a writer and later an editor, working on an encyclopedia.
In that capacity he began to author biographical sketches, writing in Hebrew, Yiddish and English.