Eliezer Isaac Schapira

Eliezer Isaac Schapira
Eliezer Isaac Schapira
	Portrait by Constantin Shapiro
Born	6 November 1835; Sereje, Suwałki Governorate, Congress Poland
Died	March 1915 (aged 79); Warsaw, Congress Poland
Pen name	Ish (אי״ש)
Language	Hebrew
Literary movement	Haskalah

Eliezer Isaac Schapira (Hebrew: אליעזר יצחק שׁפירא, romanized: Eliʻezer Yitsḥak Shapira; 6 November 1835 – March 1915) was a Jewish Polish writer, translator, and publisher.

Biography[edit]

Eliezer Isaac Schapira was born in 1835 in Sereje, Suwałki Governorate, and studied at the yeshiva of Sejny before moving to Augustów to study with his uncle, a rabbi in that city. Under the influence of his relative T. P. Schapira [he], he became a Hebrew teacher and a proponent of the Haskalah.^[2]

In 1874, Schapira settled in Warsaw, where he opened the first publishing house for children's and young people's Hebrew literature.^[3] He would become the main publisher and distributor of the works of Judah Leib Gordon.^[4] He meanwhile contributed his own articles and translations to Ha-Maggid, Ha-Tsfira, Ha-Melitz, Ha-Yom, and Ha-Asif,^[2] and for a time edited the periodical Ha-Boker Or [Wikidata].^[5]

Selected publications[edit]

Mikhtavim ba-sefer. Warsaw: Y. Goldman. 1871.
Meged yeraḥim. Vol. 1–2. Warsaw: Y. Goldman. 1871. Collection of translated stories.^[3]
Bet ha-otsar. Vol. 1–2. Warsaw: Y. Goldman. 1875.
Yad ḥarutsim. Warsaw: A. Ginz. 1879.
Reshimat sifre Haskalah. Warsaw: Ḥ. Kelter. 1883.
Ha-podeh u-matsil. Warsaw. 1885.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Translation of Salomon Kohn's novel Gallerie der Sippurim.^[6]

References[edit]

^ Davidson, Israel (1907). Parody in Jewish Literature. Columbia University Press. p. 243.
^ ^a ^b Alexandroni, Yaʿakov, ed. (1966). Sefer yizkor li-ḳehilat Ogusṭov ṿeha-sevivah [Augustów Memorial Book] (in Hebrew). Tel-Aviv: Irgun yotsʾe Ogusṭov ṿeha-sevivah be-Yiśrẚel. pp. 258–259.
^ ^a ^b "Children's Literature". Encyclopaedia Judaica. Vol. 5. Jerusalem. 1972. p. 432.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Cohen, Hagit (2009). "The Jewish Book Shop in the Urban Landscape of Eastern Europe at the End of the 19th Century". In Lempertienė, L.; Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė, J. (eds.). Jewish Space in Central and Eastern Europe: Day-to-Day History. Cambridge Scholars Publisher. pp. 198–199. ISBN 978-1-4438-0622-0.
^ Holtzman, Avner (2008). "Boker Or, Ha-". In Hundert, Gershon (ed.). YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Translated by Fachler, David. New Haven: Yale University Press.
^ Van Straalen, Samuel (1894). Catalogue of Hebrew Books in the British Museum, Acquired During the Years 1868–1892. London: British Museum. p. 228.

[1] Davidson, Israel (1907). Parody in Jewish Literature. Columbia University Press. p. 243.

[yizkor-2] Alexandroni, Yaʿakov, ed. (1966). Sefer yizkor li-ḳehilat Ogusṭov ṿeha-sevivah [Augustów Memorial Book] (in Hebrew). Tel-Aviv: Irgun yotsʾe Ogusṭov ṿeha-sevivah be-Yiśrẚel. pp. 258–259.

[EJ-3] "Children's Literature". Encyclopaedia Judaica. Vol. 5. Jerusalem. 1972. p. 432.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[cohen-4] Cohen, Hagit (2009). "The Jewish Book Shop in the Urban Landscape of Eastern Europe at the End of the 19th Century". In Lempertienė, L.; Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė, J. (eds.). Jewish Space in Central and Eastern Europe: Day-to-Day History. Cambridge Scholars Publisher. pp. 198–199. ISBN 978-1-4438-0622-0.

[yivo-5] Holtzman, Avner (2008). "Boker Or, Ha-". In Hundert, Gershon (ed.). YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Translated by Fachler, David. New Haven: Yale University Press.

[british-6] Van Straalen, Samuel (1894). Catalogue of Hebrew Books in the British Museum, Acquired During the Years 1868–1892. London: British Museum. p. 228.

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