Alexander Soscha Friedman

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Alexander Soscha Friedman

Alexander Soscha Friedman ( Hebrew אלכסנדר זושא פרידמן, Born August 9, 1897 in Sochaczew , Weichselland , Russian Empire ; † November 1943 in Trawniki Forced Labor Camp , Trawniki ) was a Pole, Orthodox Jew and rabbi , educator, journalist and Talmudic scholar.

Friedman was the founder of the first Hebrew journal Digleinu (Our Flag) for the Agudah Israel and the editor of the Ma'ayanah shel Torah (Fountain of Youth of the Torah). He also wrote an anthology of weekly paraschiot commentaries that is still popular today. He was taken to the Warsaw ghetto , deported to the Trawniki forced labor camp , which served as a satellite camp of the Majdanek concentration camp , where he was selected for deportation to the death camps and murdered in November 1943.

Works

  • The Torah Kval (1937), based on Ivrit Ma'ayanah shel Torah in English Wellsprings of Torah ,
  • Kesef Mezukak ( Grated Silver), 1923
  • Kriah LeIsha Yehudit (Reader for Jewish Women), 1921
  • Avnei Ezel (Guide to the Stones)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Seidman, Hillel. "Alexander Zusia Friedman," in Wellsprings of Torah: An Anthology of Biblical Commentaries , Vol. 1. Nison L. Alpert, ed. Judaica Press , 1974, pp. Xii-xxiii.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 7: Niederhagen / Wewelsburg, Lublin-Majdanek, Arbeitsdorf, Herzogenbusch (Vught), Bergen-Belsen, Mittelbau-Dora. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-52967-2 , p. 99.
  3. ↑ Avrohom, A. "Rabbi Alexander Zusha Friedman Hy" d: One of the few. " Yated Ne'eman (Israel English Edition), April 30, 1999, pp. 14-16.
  4. ↑ Friedenson, Joseph. "Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto" in Torah Lives: A treasury of biographical sketches , Rabbi Nisson Wolpin, ed. New York: Mesorah Publications, Ltd. , 1995, pp. 110-112. ISBN 0-89906-319-5 .
  5. ↑ Seidman, Dr. Hillel (1997). “Rabbi Alexander Zisha Friedman” in The Warsaw Ghetto Diaries , Targum Press , pp. 336–346. ISBN 1-56871-133-6 .
  6. ↑ Esther Farbstein: Hidden in Thunder: Perspectives on faith, halachah and leadership during the Holocaust , Volume 1. Feldheim Publishers , 2007, ISBN 9789657265055 , p. 31.
  7. ↑ 1942 July 25, General Political Meeting (Warsaw, Poland) . jewishhistory.org.il. 2006. Retrieved July 16, 2012.
  8. ^ This Day, July 20, In Jewish History . This Day in Jewish History. July 11, 2011. Retrieved July 16, 2012.
  9. ^ The Library Journal Book Review 1969 . RR Bowker Co., 1969.
  10. ↑ Ma'ayanah shel Torah: The classic collection of Torah commentaries on the weekly Parasha , 2nd. Edition, Judaica Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-932443-51-6 .
  11. ↑ Rabbi Yaakov Menken: Mishpatim . torah.org. Retrieved July 16, 2012.
  12. ↑ The Three Mistakes (PDF; 544 kB) Vancouver Hebrew Academy. March 23, 2012. Retrieved July 16, 2012.
  13. ↑ Dvar Torah . ou.org. Archived from the original on April 15, 2008. Retrieved July 16, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Friedman, Alexander Soscha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedman, Alexander Zusha; Frydman, Alexander Zusha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish rabbi, educator, journalist and Talmud scholar
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Sochaczew , Weichselland , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH November 1943
Place of death Trawniki Forced Labor Camp , Trawniki