Ḥayyim Selig ben Ya'akov Slonimski (Hebrew: חַיִּים זֶעלִיג בֶּן יַעֲקֹב סלאָנימסקי) (March 31, 1810 – May 15, 1904), also known by his acronym ḤaZaS (חז״ס), was a Hebrew publisher, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, science writer, and rabbi. He was among the first to write books on science for a broad Jewish audience, and was the founder of Ha-Tsfira, the first Hebrew-language newspaper with an emphasis on the sciences.
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1810 Bialystok, Russian Empire (present-day Poland)
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1904 (aged 93) Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland
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