Aaron Jarosław

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Aaron ben Zechariah Friedenthal of Jarosław (

Yiddish: אהרן פרידנטהאל בן זכריה מיארעסלאוו‎; fl. late 18th century), also known as simply Aaron Jarosław, was a Galician Maskilic writer, editor, and publisher.[1] He was a member of Moses Mendelssohn's Biurist school of Biblical exegesis
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Biography

Aaron Friedenthal was born in Jarosław, Galicia, and studied at Berlin.[2] He was a tutor in the house of Moses Mendelssohn;[3] afterwards, he returned to Galicia to serve as a teacher in the new Jewish schools, eventually becoming a director of the Galician state educational system.[4]

Friedenthal's commentary on the

Pentateuch (Netivot ha-Shalom, Berlin, 1783) and was included in all subsequent editions.[5][6] He edited the third edition of Maimonides's Beʾur Millot ha-Higgayon ('Words of Logic'), with Moses Mendelssohn's Hebrew commentary (Berlin, 1784). He also published the first posthumous editions (Lemberg, 1790 and 1791), with a new preface.[7]

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Mannheimer, S. (1904). "Jaroslaw, Aaron". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 74.

  1. ISBN 978-0-19-535942-8
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  2. ^ Gelber, N. M. (1956). "Education and Culture". In Gelber, N. M. (ed.). Encyclopedia Shel Galuyot: Lwow [Encyclopædia of the Jewish Diaspora: Lwow]. Translated by Ecker, Myra Yael. Jerusalem: Encyclopædia of the Jewish Diaspora. pp. 190–191. Retrieved 25 September 2021 – via JewishGen.
  3. ^ Zeitlin, William (1890). "Jaroslaw [Friedenthal], Aron". Bibliotheca hebraica post-Mendelssohniana (in German). Leipzig: K. F. Koehler's Antiquarium. pp. 153–154.
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  5. ^ Fürst, Julius (1863). Bibliotheca Judaica: Bibliographisches Handbuch der gesammten jüdischen Literatur (in German). Vol. 2. Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann. p. 28.
  6. ^ Steinschneider, Moritz (1852–60). "Ahron Jaroslaw b. Sacharia". Catalogus Librorum Hebræorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana (in Latin). Berlin: A. Friedlaender. p. 721.
  7. S2CID 246122525
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