The way Hoffman worms around in scholarship can seem a little odd. It's like flip the board in chess. Lithuanian Father Justinas Bonaventura Pranaitis is less known but wrote about the тαℓмυd also.
http://www.тαℓмυdunmasked.com/
The website there says, "Father Pranaitis was one of those 'liquidated' by the Cheka during the Bolshevist revolution in Russia." (((Wikipedia))) says he was defrocked and died of a heart attack.