SHMUEL-AVROM POZNANSKI (SAMUEL ABRAHAM POZNAŃSKI) (October 13,
1864-December 5, 1921)
He
was born in Lubraniec, near Włocławek,
Poland. He studied in Warsaw, Berlin, and
Heidelberg where in 1895 he received his doctorate in philosophy for a work of
research on Moshe Ibn Gikatila. From
1897 he was the rabbi and preacher at Warsaw’s Great Synagogue. He acquired great merit in the realm of
Jewish studies in Poland. He authored a
number of scholar works in a variety of languages, primarily from the era of
Geonim and on the Karaite movement. In
addition he published 784 articles in various encyclopedias and periodicals,
including a small number in Hebrew in Hatsfira
(The siren) (from 1889) and in Yiddish in Haynt
(Today) and Dos idishe folk (The
Jewish people) in Warsaw (1919, 1921).
He died in Warsaw.
Sources:
Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 2; Z.
Tigel, Geshtaltn (Images) (New York,
1928), pp. 6-7, 19-34.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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