Aaron ben Zechariah Friedenthal of Jarosław (
Yiddish: אהרן פרידנטהאל בן זכריה מיארעסלאוו;
fl. late 18th century), also known as simply Aaron Jarosław, was a
GalicianMaskilic writer, editor, and publisher.[1] He was a member of
Moses Mendelssohn's
Biurist school of
Biblicalexegesis.
Biography
Aaron Friedenthal was born in
Jarosław,
Galicia, and studied at
Berlin.[2] He was a tutor in the house of Moses Mendelssohn;[3] afterwards, he returned to Galicia to serve as a teacher in the new Jewish schools, eventually becoming a director of the Galician state educational system.[4]
Friedenthal's commentary on the Book of Numbers appeared in the first edition of Mendelssohn's Pentateuch (Netivot ha-Shalom, Berlin, 1783) and was included in all subsequent editions.[5][6] He edited the third edition of
Maimonides's Beʾur Millot ha-Higgayon ('Words of Logic'), with Moses Mendelssohn's Hebrew commentary (Berlin, 1784). He also published the first posthumous editions (Lemberg, 1790 and 1791), with a new preface.[7]
^Gelber, N. M. (1956).
"Education and Culture". In Gelber, N. M. (ed.). Encyclopedia Shel Galuyot: Lwow [Encyclopædia of the Jewish Diaspora: Lwow]. Translated by Ecker, Myra Yael. Jerusalem: Encyclopædia of the Jewish Diaspora. pp. 190–191. Retrieved 25 September 2021 – via
JewishGen.