AVIGDOR
VAYNBERGER (b. ca. 1856)
He lived in Sapinka, near Sighet-Marmației, Hungary. He
was the attendant to the rabbi of Sapinka, Yoysef-Meyer Vays. He also dealt in ritual objects. He was the author of a work on etiquette, Smikhes noyflim (Support the fallen),
in two parts (Sighet-Marmației, 1900, 1902), 64 pp.
and 80 pp. The text was written in
Hebrew and a Germanicized Yiddish. A
Yiddish edition appeared initially in 1903, and in the same year had to be
reprinted in a new edition, and in that year it appeared in an enlarged form
which by 1911 reached 180 pp. It was
outfitted with approbations from celebrated Hungarian rabbis and included as
well two prefaces and “an important verse of a beautiful poem.” The title of the pamphlet was perhaps an
allusion to the difficult material conditions of the author. He did not fail to mention to readers that
they would perforce pay him to send copies of it, because he had a young
daughter in his home.
Sources:
Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 1;
Naftali ben Menaḥem,
Misifrut yisrael beungariya (From the
Jewish literature of Hungary) (Jerusalem, 1958), pp. 150, 151, 152, 154, 162,
170.
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