Saul Pinchas Rabbinowicz (''Saul Pinehas Rabbinowicz'' / ''Rabbinowitsch'' / ''Rabinowitz''; Akronym: ''Schepher'' / ''SchePheR''; *
1845
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January–March
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in
Tauroggen; †
1910
Events
January
* January 6 – Abé people in the French West Africa colony of Côte d'Ivoire rise against the colonial administration; the rebellion is brutally suppressed by the military.
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in
Frankfurt am Main
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) was a Jewish scholar, writer and Hebrew translator, and a member of the
Lovers of Zion
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movement.
Biography
Rabbinowicz was one of the co-organizers of the
Katowice Conference
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in 1884, was the first secretary of the Union of Hovevei Zion Associations in Russia. Rabbinowicz rejected
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's Zionist movement, and saw the main goal of the Hovevei Zion to target Herzl's followers in favor of immediate practical work in Palestine. Saul was a leading "Palestinophile" of German Jews and favored emancipation.
Rabbinowicz worked with
Leon Pinsker
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.
He translated
Graetz's ''History of the Jews'' into Hebrew (Warsaw 1888). This reached a wide audience and caused a considerable amount of controversy and criticism.
He was a mentor of
Ze'ev Yavetz.
Saul Pinchas Rabbinowicz was the father of the socialist Sarah Rabinowitz, also known as Sonja Lerch. Another, older daughter named Lydia is described by
Victor Klemperer
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as a “fanatical Zionist” who no longer wanted to associate with him after she found out that he had converted.
Works
*''Dibre ha-Yamim li-Bene Yisrael'', Warsaw, 1890, translation of
Grätz's ''Geschichte der Juden'' into Hebrew
* ''Moẓa'e Golah'', a history of the exiled Spanish Jews and of their literature
*''R. Yom-Ṭob Lipman Zunz'', Warsaw, 1896, an exhaustive biography of
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* (1874–1939), Belgian pharmacologist
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*a monograph on
Zacharias Frankel
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(ib. 1898), and several minor works.
''Jewish Encyclopedia'' bibliography
*''Sefer Zikkaron'', pp. 103-104, Warsaw, 1890;
*
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*''Ha-Ẓefirah'', 1880, Nos. 8-17.
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