SHMUEL RAFALOVITSH (December 24, 1866-November 15, 1923)
He was
born in Bohupol (Bogopol), Podolia. His Hebraized
name was Rafaeli. He was the brother of
Yeshaye Rafalovitsh, and they came from a rabbinic-Enlightenment family. He studied in religious primary school (with Micah Joseph Berdichevsky) and secular subject
matter as well. In 1882 he moved with
his parents to Jerusalem. In 1899 he
left for London, in 1905 for New York, and in 1907 returned to the land of
Israel. He wrote mainly in Hebrew—novellas,
research works, translations, and memoirs.
Especially well known from his Hebrew writings is Matbeot hayehudim (Jewish coins) (Jerusalem, 1913), 199 pp. He also wrote for Yiddish-language
newspapers. He edited the Hebrew-Yiddish
weekly Shaare tsiyon (Gates of
Zion). In 1890 he published and edited
(with Shloyme Epshteyn) Der erets-yisroel
yud (The Jew in the land of Israel) (Jerusalem)—8 issues over three
months. He died in Jerusalem.
Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 4; Getzel Kressel, Leksikon hasifrut haivrit (Handbook of Hebrew literature), vol. 2
(Merḥavya, 1967); D.
Tidhar, in Entsiklopedyah leḥalutse
hayishuv uvonav (Encyclopedia of the pioneers and builders of the yishuv),
vol. 1 (Tel Aviv, 1947); E. R. Malachi, in Hatoran
(New York) (December 1923); Prese-zamlung
(Press collection) (New York, 1930), pp. 149, 215.
Ruvn Goldberg
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