RIFOEL
SUFERMAN (September 2, 1879-April 23, 1956)
He was born in Kanali, Uman
district, Ukraine, into a rabbinical family.
He studied in religious elementary school and yeshivas. In 1894 he moved to Galicia, graduated from a
Polish high school, and studied at the University of Vienna. He was a student of Professor Yitskhok Khayes
and one of his collaborators. He
cofounded the Zion Association in Lemberg.
For many years he was a teacher and chairman of the Jewish teachers’ union
in the former Austro-Hungarian empire.
In 1912 he came to the land of Israel, worked as a teacher in Tsfat
(Safed), Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv. Over
the years 1922-1928, he was a member of the Tel Aviv city council. He wrote for: Hakarmel (The Carmel) in 1898 and for Togblat (Daily newspaper) from 1904 to 1912—in Lemberg; for Bader’s
and Frostik’s Folks-kalenders (People’s
calendars); in the Yiddish weekly Haivri
(The Jew) (1911-1912) for which he also served as editor, in Bród; and in Hamagid (The preacher), Hamitspe (The watchtower), Haolam (The world) in Berlin-London, and
in German for Die Welt (The world) in
Vienna. He was also the author of a work
in Hebrew on the book of Amos,
written with Tsvi Sharfshteyn. He died
in Tel Aviv.
Source:
Sefer haishim (Biographical
dictionary) (Tel Aviv, 1937), pp. 365-66; N. M. Gelber, Toldot hatenua hatsiyonit begalitsiya (History of the Zionist movement
in Galicia), vols. 1 and 2 (Jerusalem, 1958), see index; obituary notices in
the Israeli press (April 24 and 25, 1956).
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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