HOROWITZ, AARON JUDAH LOEB
- HOROWITZ, AARON JUDAH LOEB
- HOROWITZ, AARON JUDAH LOEB (Leon; pseud.
Ayalah; 1847–1926), Hebrew writer born in Minsk. After
leaving the yeshivah in Shklov in 1862, he studied in Western Europe and
traveled widely before settling in New York in 1870. There he taught
Hebrew and contributed prolifically to the European Hebrew press. An
advocate of mass immigration to America for Jews suffering persecution
in Romania, Horowitz went there to tour the country for this purpose in
1873, sponsored by steamship companies. The book he published
subsequently, Rumanyah va-Amerikah (1874), provides many
details about the communities Horowitz visited and is a valuable source
of information for their situation in this period, and in particular
their internal affairs. The second part of the book provides a
description of the United States and Jewish settlement there to
encourage prospective immigrants. A guide for immigrants is also
included. Horowitz himself spent the rest of his life in business in
Hamburg.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
N. Sokolow (ed.), Sefer Zikkaron le-Soferei Yisrael (1889),
30–31; L.P. Gartner, in: AJHSP, 45 (1955/56), 67–92.
(Lloyd P. Gartner)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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