KHAYIM-ZALMEN ALYOSHEVITSH
Born in Vilna. He was
a Maskil and Hebrew writer, and he was the father-in-law of the famed
mathematician, Professor Herman Shapiro, founder of the Jewish National
Fund. At the end of the 1860s, he
emigrated to England and took part in the community life of Russian and Polish
Jews in London. He edited (together with
Shmuel Distilator) a Yiddish weekly with the title Hashoyfer (The
shofar)—the first number dated January 21, 1874 (London). He was known in Hebrew literature under the
pseudonym חזא״ל.
Sources:
E. R. Malachi, in Zamlbukh lekoved dem tvey hundert un fuftsikstn yoyvl fun
der yidisher prese (Collection in honor of the 250th anniversary
of the Yiddish press), ed. Dr. Y. Shatski (New York, 1937), pp. 315-16; Libe
Shildkret, in Yivi-bleter, vol. 15, no. 3 (1940), pp. 217-24.
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