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Avigdor (Victor) Aptowitzer (March 16, 1871 – December 5, 1942) was a rabbinic and talmudic scholar. ==Life== Aptowitzer was born in Ternopil (Galicia) on March 16, 1871 to his parents Moshe Aaron and Tziril Kasner. His father, who suffered from poor health, was the head of a small yeshiva and barely eked out a living. Avigdor helped out from the age of seven by tutoring students. The family was aligned with the Chortikov hassidic dynasty; they also occasionally traveled to see the Rebbe (holy rabbi) of Husiaten. While staying in Husiaten Avigdor came under the influence of a local maskil. He began learning science and gradually ceased to pay visits to the Rebbe of Husiaten. As a result the Rebbe's disciples asked that he be drafted in the Army, and he indeed served in the Army. In 1896 Aptowitzer traveled to Chernowitz where he studied for his matriculation exam, which he passed. He made a living by teaching mathematics. In 1899 he received rabbinical ordination and became engaged to Malka Durnboim. After his engagement Aptowitzer traveled to Vienna, in order to study at the University as well as at the Hebrew Teachers College. He was employed as the personal secretary to Abraham Epstein. In 1909, with the recommendation of David Zvi Miller, Aptowitzer was appointed as a lecturer at the Hebrew Teachers College to replace Meir Friedmann who had died. Solomon Schechter invited him to the United States in 1918 but Aptowitzer turned down the proposal. The scholar Hirsch Perez Chajes appointed him as a teacher in the Israelitisch-Theologischen Lehranstalt (Jewish Theological Seminary) he founded. Aptowitzer served as a professor of Talmud, Bible, Midrash and Jewish Philosophy. In 1924 Aptowitzer was invited to an academic position in Jerusalem but he turned down the offer because of his wife's illness. In 1938, after his wife died, Aptowitzer emigrated to Palestine, but by this time there was no position available for him. In Israel he was engaged primarily in editing his papers for publication. Aptowitzer died December 5, 1942 and was buried in Jerusalem's Mount of Olives cemetery. In his last will and testament he asked that his tombstone only state that he edited the works of Ra'avyah; he also asked that his unpublished writings be burned. Throughout his life he suffered from a number of diseases and shortness of vision and in his later years he was blind. Aptowitzer was an observant Jew, scrupulously observing Jewish ritual law. He belonged to the Mizrachi Zionist movement and he lectured in Vienna in Hebrew. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Avigdor Aptowitzer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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