Ḥayyim Selig Slonimski | |
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 Ḥayyim Selig Slonimski | |
| Native name | חַיִּים זֶעלִיג בֶּן יַעֲקֹב סלאָנימסקי |
| Born | March 31, 1810 Bialystok, Russian Empire (present-day Poland) |
| Died | May 15, 1904 (aged 94) Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland |
| Resting place | Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery |
| Notable works | Mosedei Ḥokmah, Sefer Kukba di-Shebit, Toledot ha-Shamayim |
| Notable awards | Demidov Prize (1844) |
| Spouse | Reiza Rivhas Neches
(m. 1828; div. 1836)Sara Gitel Stern
(m. 1842; died 1897) |
| Relatives | Antoni Słonimski (grandson), Mikhail Slonimsky (grandson),[1] Nicolas Slonimsky (grandson)[2] |
Ḥayyim Selig ben Ya'akov Slonimski (Yiddish: חַיִּים זֶעלִיג בֶּן יַעֲקֹב סלאָנימסקי) (March 31, 1810 – May 15, 1904), also known by his acronym ḤaZaS (חז״ס), was a Hebrew publisher, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, science writer, and rabbi. He was among the first to write books on science for a broad Jewish audience, and was the founder of Ha-Tsfira, the first Hebrew-language newspaper with an emphasis on the sciences.[3][4]
- ^ Slutsky, Yehuda (2007). "Slonimski, Ḥayyim Selig". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.
- ^ Slonimsky, Nicolas (1988). Perfect Pitch: A Life Story. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-0193151550.
- ^ Silberschlag, Eisig S. (1973). From Renaissance to Renaissance: Hebrew Literature from 1492–1970. New York: KTAV Publishing House. p. 177. ISBN 0870681842. OCLC 754267.
- ^ Corry, Leo (2018). "Creating a Modern Hebrew Language for Mathematics" (PDF). In Movshovitz-Hadar, Nitsa (ed.). K–12 Mathematics Education in Israel: Issues and Innovations. Series on Mathematics Education. Vol. 13. Singapore: World Scientific. p. 319. ISBN 978-9813231184. LCCN 2017046285.