Aaron Jarosław

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.

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 Book of Numbers appeared in the first edition of Mendelssohn's 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. Lowenstein, Steven M. (1994). The Berlin Jewish Community: Enlightenment, Family and Crisis, 1770–1830. Studies in Jewish History. Oxford University Press. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-19-535942-8.
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.
4. Feiner, Shmuel (2004). The Jewish Enlightenment. Jewish Culture and Contexts. Translated by Naor, Chaya. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 200, 215, 249. doi:10.9783/9780812200942. ISBN 978-0-8122-3755-9.
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. Mendelssohn, Moses (2018). "Beʾur Millot ha-Higgayon [Commentary on the Treatise on Logical Terms]". In Sorkin, David (ed.). Moses Mendelssohn's Hebrew Writings. Yale University Press. pp. 51–106. doi:10.12987/9780300235500-006. ISBN 9780300235500. S2CID 246122525.