Hermann Schapira

Zvi Hermann Schapira.
Stamps with inscribed portraits, including Hermann Schapira, ca. 1916. In the collection of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland.

Zvi Hermann Schapira (Hebrew: צבי הרמן שפירא; 1840–1898), or Hermann Hirsch Schapira, was a Lithuanian rabbi,[1] mathematician at the University of Heidelberg, and Zionist. He was the first to suggest founding a Jewish National Fund for the purchase of land in Palestine.

  1. ^ Myers, David N. "A New Scholalry Colony in Jerusalem: The Early History of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University" (PDF). Judaism (The Origins of Modern Jewish Studies and the Founding of the Hebrew University, Issue No. 178 / Volume 45 / Number 2, Spring 1996). American Jewish Congress: 142–159 [146]. Retrieved 16 February 2021.