Английская Википедия:Abraham Kaplansky

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Шаблон:Infobox person Abraham Leon Kaplansky (Шаблон:Lang-yi; 1 May 1860 – 5 July 1939) was a Canadian printer, lawyer, and communal worker, who established Canada's first Hebrew and Yiddish printing press.Шаблон:R

Biography

Kaplansky was born in Białystok, where he trained and worked as a printer.Шаблон:R He immigrated to New York in 1889, where he entered the steamship ticket business, before moving to Montreal in 1893.Шаблон:R There he established the first Hebrew and Yiddish printing press in Canada, using type imported from New York, which largely produced booklets, pamphlets, and other ephemera.Шаблон:R Among Kaplansky's first publications were calendars for the Jewish years 5655 and 5656.Шаблон:R

In 1906 he was made a justice of the peace for the District of Montreal,Шаблон:R and the following year he took up the study of law.Шаблон:R He was appointed head of the legal aid service of the Baron de Hirsch Institute in 1910.Шаблон:R Kaplansky became the first clerk of the Montreal Jewish Court of Arbitration when it was founded in 1915 under the auspices of the institute.Шаблон:R

Kaplansky was meanwhile active in a number charitable institutions and fraternal societies. He served as District Deputy Grand Master of the Independent Order of the Sons of Benjamin, as Treasurer of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue,Шаблон:R and as president of the Chevra Kadisha congregation.Шаблон:R He was also instrumental in establishing the Jewish Immigrant Aid Society of Canada.Шаблон:R

On his death in July 1939, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency described Kaplansky as "one of the best known Jews in Canada".Шаблон:R