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Avigdor (Victor) Aptowitzer (1871-1942) was born in T... more[This page is curated by Mr. Menachem Butler of Cambridge, MA]
Avigdor (Victor) Aptowitzer (1871-1942) was born in Tarnopol, Galicia, and studied at the University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of Vienna where, from 1909 to 1938, he taught biblical exegesis, aggadah, and religious philosophy, as well as Talmud and Codes. From 1919 to 1938 he also taught Talmud at the Hebrew Teachers’ College in Vienna. A confirmed Zionist, he gave his lectures in Hebrew. In 1938 Aptowitzer settled in Jerusalem. He passed away in 1942.edit