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Yehoshua Rawnitzki
Photograph of Rawnitzki by Zoltan Kluger
Photograph of Rawnitzki by Zoltan Kluger
Born(1859-09-13)September 13, 1859
Odessa, Russian Empire
DiedMay 4, 1944(1944-05-04) (aged 84)
Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine
LanguageHebrew, Yiddish

Yehoshua Ḥana Rawnitzki (Hebrew: יהושע חנא רבניצקי; 13 September 1859 – 4 May 1944) was a Hebrew publisher, editor, and collaborator of Hayim Nahman Bialik.

Biography

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Yehoshua Ḥana Rawnitzki was born to a poor Jewish family in Odessa in 1859. He began his journalistic career in 1879, by contributing first to Ha-Kol, and then to other periodicals.[1] He was the editor and publisher of Pardes, a literary collection best known for publishing Hayim Nahman Bialik's first poem, "El ha-Tzippor," in 1892. With Sholem Aleichem (under the pseudonym Eldad), Rawnitzki (under the pseudonym Medad) published a series of feuilletons entitled Kevurat Soferim ("The Burial of Writers").[1] From 1908 through 1911, Rawnitzki and Bialik published Sefer Ha-Aggadah ("The Book of Legends") a compilation of aggadah from the Mishnah, the two Talmuds and the Midrash literature.[2]

Rawnitzki moved to Palestine in 1921, where he took part in the founding of the Dvir publishing house.[3] He died there in May 1944.

References

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  1. ^ a b Kressel, Getzel (2007). "Rawnitzki, Yehoshua Ḥana". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.
  2. ^ Bialik, H. N.; Ravnitzky, Y. H., eds. (1992) [1908–1911]. The Book of Legends: Sefer Ha-Aggadah. New York: Schocken Books.
  3. ^ Sokolow, Nahum (1889). Sefer zikaron le-sofrei Israel ha-ḥayim itanu ka-yom [Memoir Book of Contemporary Jewish Writers]. Warsaw. p. 105.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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