Aaron Jarosław

Aaron ben Zechariah Friedenthal of Jarosław, also known as simply Aaron Jarosław, was a Galician Maskilic writer, editor, and publisher. He was a member of Moses Mendelssohn's Biurist school of Biblical exegesis.

Biography

Aaron Friedenthal was born in Jarosław, Galicia, and studied at Berlin. He was a tutor in the house of Moses Mendelssohn; afterwards, he returned to Galicia to serve as a teacher in the new Jewish schools, eventually becoming a director of the Galician state educational system.
Friedenthal's commentary on the Book of Numbers appeared in the first edition of Mendelssohn's Pentateuch and was included in all subsequent editions. He edited the third edition of Maimonides's Beʾur Millot ha-Higgayon, with Moses Mendelssohn's Hebrew commentary. He also published the first posthumous editions, with a new preface.