NOVY OLEKSINIEC

NOVY OLEKSINIEC
NOVY OLEKSINIEC, small town in Kremenets (Krzemieniec), today in Tarnopol district, Ukraine, noted for leather products. In 1765, 203 Jewish taxpayers were registered in Oleksiniec and its suburb (Oleksiniec Stary). The printing press established there in 1760 was one of the first Hebrew presses in Russia. H. Margolis, active between 1766 and 1776, printed some 18 rabbinical works there. Noteworthy is Zemir Ariẓim ve-Ḥarvot Ẓurim (1772), a collection of anti-ḥasidic proclamations. Rabbis of Oleksiniec include Mordecai ha-Kohen Rappoport, son of Shabbetai, author of Imrei No'am (Oleksiniec, 1767), and Jacob Joseph ha-Levi Horovitz of Brody, installed in 1790. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Yalkut Vohlin, 1 (1945), 9; B. Friedberg, Toledot ha-Defus ha-Ivri be-Polanyah (19502).

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать курсовую

Look at other dictionaries:

  • SERL BAS JACOB BEN WOLF KRANZ — (18th century), author of Tkhine imohos min Rosh Hodesh Elul (Tkhine of the Matriarchs from the New Moon of Elul). Serl was the wife of the rabbi and apothecary Mordecai ha Cohen Rappoport, head of the rabbinical court of Novy Oleksiniec and… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”