YOEL (JOEL) ARONSON (1848-April 25, 1919)
Born in a small town in the Kovno region, into a family of
rabbis and scholars. At age six he began
to study Talmud, and at eighteen he was already prepared for rabbinical ordination. The “winds of enlightenment,” however, led
him away to Zhitomir to the local rabbinical school. He published tracts in Hamelits (The
advocate) as well as in Y. L. Kantor’s Hayom (Today). In 1891 he emigrated to the United States. Together with Morris Rosenfeld and Yankev (Jacob)
Ter, he was the editor-publisher of a weekly publication entitled Di zun
(The sun) (New York, 1892; seven issues printed). He also wrote from time to time for other
Yiddish newspapers in New York. The poet
Mikhl Aronson was his son.
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