Shapiro Haim Nakhman ( 1895 , Minsk - December 8, 1943 , Kaunas ) - Lithuanian and Jewish literary critic , publicist and teacher . Doctor of Philosophy (1925). Shot by the Nazis in Kaunas during the Holocaust .
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Biography
Shapiro Haim Nachman was born in Minsk in the family of rabbi Avrom Dovber Shapiro. Grandson of Leib Perelman . Got a traditional Jewish religious education. In the period from 1921 to 1925 he studied philosophy and Semitic languages at the universities of Berlin and the University of Vienna .
From 1925 he began to teach Semitic languages at the University of Kaunas . In 1931 he received the post of professor and continued his activities until 1940.
One of the leading figures of Zionism in Lithuania , participated as a delegate to several Zionist congresses. It was published in the Kaunas newspaper "Yiddish Shtim."
During his stay in the Kaunas ghetto, he headed the department of education and culture of the ghetto, worked on a comprehensive publication, “History of Modern Jewish Literature,” which was designed for 12 volumes, the first volume was published in Tel Aviv in 1939, the second volume disappeared in ghetto).
December 8, 1943 was shot along with his wife, mother and only son Itamar.
The author is “Der Wezntleher Unterscheid Zwishn der Alter Un Naer Literature” (“The Difference Between Old and New Literature.” Kaunas, 1935).
Publications
- Kaunietis A. Mapu: jo gyvenimas ir kuryba (Kaunas: "Raides" Koperatyvo Spaustuve, 1928) על אברהם מאפו הליטאי
- Hebrajų k. vieta semitų k. šeimoje (1930)
- Lietuva L. Neiduso kūryboje (1931)
- Die grammatische Terminologie des Salomon ben Isaak (Raschi): nach den Quellen untersucht (Kaunas, 193-)
- Vilnius naujojoj žydų poezijoj (Kaunas; Vilnius, 1935)
- Naujosios žydų literatūros metmenys (Kaunas: VDU Humanitarinių Mokslų Fakulteto Leidinys, 1938)
Links
- Shapiro Haim Nachman - article from the Russian Jewish Encyclopedia
- חיים נחמן שפירא (Hebrew) . library.osu.edu. Date of treatment March 25, 2015.