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Jacob Fishman
Jacob Fishman (, April 10, 1878 – December 21, 1946) was a Polish-born Jewish American Yiddish newspaper editor and Zionist. Life Fishman was born on April 10, 1878, in Radziłów, Łomża Governorate, Congress Poland, the son of Samuel Fishman and Rachel Ebenstein. He spent two years in the Lomza Yeshiva. Fishman immigrated to America in 1890 and attended public and private schools in New York City. He began working for ''The Jewish Daily News'' in 1893, and in 1895 he became its city editor. He then became city editor of ''The Warheit'' from 1914 to 1916. In late 1916, he became managing editor of the ''Jewish Morning Journal''. In 1936, following the death of Peter Wiernik, he became editor-in-chief of the paper. He introduced the daily heading "Fun Tog tsu Tog” (From Day to Day), which focused on Jewish and general issues. He also contributed to the Philadelphia paper ''Di Idishe Velt'' (The Jewish World) and to the Polish Yiddish press. As editor of the ''Jewish Morning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Jacob in Islam, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel (name), Israel, is regarded as a Patriarchs (Bible), patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Jacob first appears in the Book of Genesis, where he is described as the son of Isaac and Rebecca, and the grandson of Abraham, Sarah, and Bethuel. According to the biblical account, he was the second-born of Isaac's children, the elder being Jacob's fraternal twin brother, Esau. Jacob is said to have bought Esau's Primogeniture, birthright and, with his mother's help, deceived his aging father to bless him instead of Esau. Later in the narrative, following a severe drought in his homeland of Canaan, Jacob and his descendants, with the help of his son Joseph (Genesis), Joseph (who had become a confidant of the pharaoh), moved to Biblical Egypt, Egypt where Jacob died at the age of 147. He is su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
