Abraham Mapu

Abraham Mapu was born in 1808 in Slobodka, a poor suburb of Kovno, the son of a Talmudic schoolmaster. Regarded from a very young age as a prodigy of study, he learned Latin from a psalter accompanied by its Latin translation, then German, French and Russian, despite the hostility of the Orthodox. A tutor in Lithuania from 1832, then in Vilna, he later taught in a public Jewish school in Kovno. He then published Ayit tsavoua, on the Jewish life of his time, and Ashmat Shomron; of Hozei hezyonot, a novel on the time of Sabbatai Zevi, only a fragment remains. He died in Königsberg in 1867.

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• NovelThe Love of Zionאהבת ציוןAbraham Mapu · 1853LiteraturePublic domain