Aron Hersch Żupnik

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Aron Hersch Żupnik
Rabbinical and scientific lectures , printed by AH Żupnik (1897)

Aron Hersch Żupnik (* 1848, † 1917), also Aharon Hirsh Zupnik , was a Jewish writer and publisher in Galicia .

life and work

His writings appeared in Hamashber , Hamagid, and Hashachar . In his writings he analyzed Jewish education. In 1883 he founded in Drohobych , a Hebrew printing press and the German-language weekly newspaper published Drohobyczer newspaper with Hebrew letters. His intention was to spread the ideas of Enlightenment and emancipation among the Jews in Galicia. From time to time there was a Hebrew edition.

He was also an employee of "Ẓiyyon", a magazine that was initially devoted to Hebrew literature and appeared irregularly from 1885 to 1888 and later became a monthly journal (1896/97).

His printing house AH Żupnik was successful and also had business relationships with the Viennese court. Probably in 1904 or 1905 he was appointed supplier to the imperial and royal court .

Works

  • Ḳedushshat ha-Schem (Brody, 1867), a historical novel with a depiction of Jewish life in Spain, adapted from Ludwig Philippson's " Jakob Tirado "
  • Toledot Abraham (Lemberg, 1869), a biography of Abraham Cohn , a Lviv preacher, also endorsed by religious groups
  • Emet u-Mischpat (Drohobycz, 1883), a Hebrew translation of Joseph von Wertheimer's “Jewish Teaching and Jewish Life” (also published in Polish under the title “Nauka Zydowska”)
  • Vom Heder zur Werkstätte (ib. 1884), a German novel about Jewish life in Galicia
  • For the solution of the Jewish question through the Jews (Berlin, 1885)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pinkas Hakehillot: Drohobycz. In: Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Poland, Volume II. Yad Vashem, December 4, 2008, pp. 160–171 , accessed on December 3, 2009 .
  2. ↑ Haschachar (The Dawn) was a Hebrew magazine published in Vienna by Peretz Smolenskin (1842–1885), a Jewish writer, publisher and representative of the Haskalah .
  3. ↑ Handbook of the Supreme Court and the Court of His K. and K. Apostolic Majesty for 1905 . Vienna. Printing and publishing of the kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei . P. 239.
  4. ↑ Joseph Jacobs, M. Seligsoh:  Zupnik, Aaron Hirsch. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906.

literature

  • Bibliography: Lippe, Bibliographisches Lexicon, neue Serie, i .;
  • Zeitlin, Bibl. Post-Mendels. P. 431.J. M.
personal data
SURNAME Żupnik, Aron Hersch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zupnik, Aharon Hirsh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jewish writer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 1848
DATE OF DEATH 1917