Samuel Abraham Poznański or Shemuel Avraham Poznanski ( Hebrew: שמואל אברהם פוזננסקי, Lubraniec, 3 September 1864–1921) was a Polish-Jewish scholar, known for his studies of Karaism and the Hebrew calendar. Arabist, Hebrew bibliographer, and authority on modern Karaism; rabbi and preacher at the Great Synagogue in Warsaw.
He graduated from a gymnasium of Warsaw and studied at Warsaw University and the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin. [1] At that time he formed an intimate friendship with his teacher Moritz Steinschneider, for whose eightieth birthday in 1896 he edited the Festschrift.
He was appointed a member of the Warsaw council of rabbis by a committee of the Great Synagogue on Tłomackie Street, Warsaw just before his death where he preached. Orthodox Jews opposed his appointment and even resorted to street demonstrations. [2] [3] He was succeeded at the Great Synagogue by Moses Schorr in 1923.
He was an ardent Zionist, and a delegate to the First Zionist Congress.
Poznanski is the author of the following works:
He has contributed also numerous articles to the "Monatsschrift," Stade's " Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft," "Ha-Goren" (Berdychev), " Ha-Ẓefirah" (Warsaw), " Revue des Etudes Juives," and the " Jewish Quarterly Review".
Samuel Abraham Poznański or Shemuel Avraham Poznanski ( Hebrew: שמואל אברהם פוזננסקי, Lubraniec, 3 September 1864–1921) was a Polish-Jewish scholar, known for his studies of Karaism and the Hebrew calendar. Arabist, Hebrew bibliographer, and authority on modern Karaism; rabbi and preacher at the Great Synagogue in Warsaw.
He graduated from a gymnasium of Warsaw and studied at Warsaw University and the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin. [1] At that time he formed an intimate friendship with his teacher Moritz Steinschneider, for whose eightieth birthday in 1896 he edited the Festschrift.
He was appointed a member of the Warsaw council of rabbis by a committee of the Great Synagogue on Tłomackie Street, Warsaw just before his death where he preached. Orthodox Jews opposed his appointment and even resorted to street demonstrations. [2] [3] He was succeeded at the Great Synagogue by Moses Schorr in 1923.
He was an ardent Zionist, and a delegate to the First Zionist Congress.
Poznanski is the author of the following works:
He has contributed also numerous articles to the "Monatsschrift," Stade's " Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft," "Ha-Goren" (Berdychev), " Ha-Ẓefirah" (Warsaw), " Revue des Etudes Juives," and the " Jewish Quarterly Review".