Hermann Schapira

Zvi Hermann Schapira (Hebrew: צבי הרמן שפירא‎; 1840-1898), or Hermann Hirsch Schapira, was a Lithuanian rabbi, 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.

Hermann Schapira

Zvi Hermann Schapira (Hebrew: צבי הרמן שפירא‎; 1840-1898), or Hermann Hirsch Schapira, was a Lithuanian rabbi, 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.