ANTONI (ARN) AYZNBOYM (EISENBAUM) (1791-1853)
Born in Warsaw into a poor family. He studied in the well-known Warsaw Lycee. In 1823 he turned to the authorities for
permission to publish a Hebrew weekly newspaper. Permission, as well as material support, was
received, but on the condition that the Hebrew newspaper be published with a
Polish translation. Unable to do the Hebrew
alone and unable to find an appropriate coworker, Ayznboym (an advocate of
assimilation) decided to publish the weekly in German with the Jewish alphabet
on one side and in Polish on the other.
Thus, on December 3, 1823 was published the first serial with Jewish
lettering in Russia under the title Der beobakhter an der vaykhsel (The observer
of the Vistula) and in Polish as Dostrzegacz Nadwiślański; it came out until September 1824,
forty-four issues in all. He later was
the manager of the Jewish rabbinical institute in Warsaw.
Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 1; E.
N. Frenk, in Tsukunft (March 1924) in New York; N. Mayzil, in Tsukunft (March
1924) in New York; Dr. Y. Shatski, Geshikhte fun yidn in varshe (History of the Jews in Warsaw), vols.
1-2.
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