Alexander Zusia Friedman

Alexander Soscha Friedman (Hebrew אלכסנדר זושא פרידמן, born August 9, 1897 in Sochaczew ( Sochatchov ), Vistula Land, Russian Empire; † November 1943 in the forced labor camp Trawniki Trawniki ) was a Pole, an Orthodox Jew and a rabbi, educator, journalist and Talmud scholar.

Friedman was the founder of the first Hebrew journal Digleinu ( Our Flag) for the Agudah Israel and the editor of Ma'ayanah shel Torah ( Fountain of the Torah ). He also wrote an anthology of comments the weekly Parashiot that is still popular today. He was taken in the Warsaw Ghetto deported to a forced labor camp Trawniki, that the Majdanek concentration camp served as a satellite camp, where he was selected for deportation to the death camps and murdered in November 1943.

Works

  • The Torah Kval (1937 ), on Ivrit shel Torah Ma'ayanah in English Wellsprings of Torah,
  • Kesef Mezukak ( Grated silver ), 1923
  • Kriah Leisha Yehudit ( read book for the Jewish woman ), 1921
  • Avnei Ezel ( Guide to the stones )
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