DOVID
HARPENIS (d. Summer 1943)
He was born in Năsăud (Naszód), Hungary [now, Romania]. Until 1924 he lived in a variety of towns in
Hungary. Until WWII he was the director
of a yeshiva in Klausenburg (Cluj-Napoca). He was the editor of: the Yiddish-language Kol makhzike hadas (Voice of the
sustainers of the faith) in Cluj (1928), which from 1929 carried the subtitle: “Weekly
newspaper for Orthodox concerns of the Jewish community in Transylvania”; and of
the Hebrew-language Shaare dea (Gates
of knowledge) in Déva (Deva) in 1928 (three issues appeared). When the Nazis
occupied Klausenburg, he suffered various agonies and persecutions and
ultimately died a martyr.
Source: Y. Yosef Kahan, in Areshet (Jerusalem) (1958-1959), pp.
317-18.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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