Aaron Jaroslaw

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Aaron Jarosław (* effective in the 18th century) was a Polish Jewish exegete . He was one of the explanators, the so-called biurists , of Mendelssohn's translation of the Bible.

Jarosław was a teacher in Moses Mendelssohn's house in the early 1780s. He then worked as a teacher in Lviv . His commentary on the book Numbers appeared in the first edition of Mendelssohn's Pentateuch ( Netibot ha-Shalom , Berlin, 1783) and was adopted in all subsequent editions. He published the third edition of Moses Maimonides Millot ha-Higgayon (Treatise on Logic) along with Moses Mendelssohn's Hebrew Commentary (Berlin, 1784).

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  1. The article is based on the following article: Isidore Singer, S. Mannheimer: Jarowslaw, Aaron. In: jewishencyclopedia.com.
  2. Heinrich Grätz : History of the Jews from the oldest times to the present . tape 11 . Leipzig 1870, p. 48 .