Aaron Elijah Pumpianski
Aaron Elijah Pumpianski | |
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Born | 1835 Vilna, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire |
Died | 26 April 1893 Riga, Livonia Governorate, Russian Empire | (aged 57–58)
Pen name | I. Heiman (И. Гейман) |
Occupation | Crown rabbi |
Language | Russian, Hebrew |
Nationality | Russian |
Aaron Elijah ben Aryeh Löb Pumpianski (Hebrew: אַהֲרֹן אֵלִיָּהוּ בֵּן אַרְיֵה לֵיבּ פּוּמפִּיאַנְסקִי, romanized: Aharon Eliyahu ben Aryeh Leyb Pumpianski, Russian: Арон Илия Пумпянский, romanized: Aron Ilya Pumpyanskiy; 1835 – 26 April 1893) was a Russian crown rabbi and author.
Born in
Ha-Karmel (1860–61).[1] In 1861 Pumpianski was chosen crown rabbi of Ponevezh, Kovno Governorate, where he remained until 1873; he was then elected to the same office in the Jewish community of Riga, remaining there until his death.[2]
Pumpianski was the author of a collection of
Russian Jewish and Russian periodicals numerous articles on diverse topics, among them being a sketch of the history of the Jews in Courland and Livonia.[1]
Publications
- Sefer Tehillim (in Hebrew and Russian). Warsaw: Tipografii N. Shriftgissera. 1871.
- Solomon Premudroi (in Russian). Riga. 1882.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Shire-Tsiyyon (in Hebrew). Vilna: Defus R. Yehuda Leib ben R. Eliezer Lipman. 1884.
- Mishlei (in Hebrew and Russian). Saint Petersburg: Defus Eliezer Behrman ve-Tzvi Rabinovitz. 1891.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rosenthal, Herman; Wiernik, Peter (1905). "Pumpianski, Aaron Elijah b. Aryeh Löb". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 10. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 268.
- ^ a b Sokolow, Naḥum (1889). Sefer zikaron le-sofrei Israel ha-ḥayim itanu ka-yom [Memoir Book of Contemporary Jewish Writers] (in Hebrew). Warsaw. p. 85.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Katznelson, J. L.; Ginzburg, Baron D., eds. (1912). [Pumpyanskiy, Aron Ilya]. Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron (in Russian). Vol. 13. St. Petersburg: Brockhaus & Efron. p. 117.