Abraham Mapu

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Abraham Mapu (1808 in

Biography

Born into a

where his father served as a teacher. He married in 1825.

For many years he was an impoverished, itinerant schoolmaster. Mapu gained financial security when he was appointed teacher in a government school for

.

He returned in 1848 to

), and died there.

Evaluation

Mapu is considered to be the first

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Legacy

The romantic-nationalistic ideas in his novels later inspired David Ben-Gurion^{[citation needed]} and others active in the leadership of the modern Zionist movement that led to the establishment of the state of Israel. The American Hebrew poet, Gabriel Preil, references Mapu in one of his works and focuses on the two writers' native Lithuania.

Novels

• Ahavat Zion (1853) (Amnon, Prince and Peasant as translated by F. Jaffe in 1887)
• Ayit Tzavua (1858) (Hypocrite Eagle)
• Ashmat Shomron (1865) (Guilt of Samaria)

Commemorations

Streets bearing his name are found in the

. A well-known Israeli novel called "The Children from Mapu Street" ("הילדים מרחוב מאפו") also celebrates his name. In Kaunas A. Mapu Street a joyful statue of A. Mapu with a book in his hand was established by the sculptor Martynas Gaubas in 2019.

References

External links

• Mapu's works (Hebrew) at Project Ben-Yehuda
• Abraham Mapu (English) at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature
• Works by or about Abraham Mapu at Internet Archive
• Works by Abraham Mapu at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)