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==Biografia==
Born into a [[JewishEbrei|ebrea]] family, as a child Mapu studied in a [[Heder (ebraismo)|cheder]] where his father served as a teacher. He married in 1825.
For many years he was an impoverished, itinerant schoolmaster. Mapu gained financial security when he was appointed teacher in a government school for [[Jewebrei]]ish children. He worked as a teacher in various towns and cities, joined the [[Haskalah]] movement, and studied German, French and Russian. He also studied [[Latin]] from a translation of the Bible to that language, given him by his local [[rabbi]].
[[Image:Abraomo Mapu paminklas Kaune.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Statue of Abraham Mapu in [[Kaunas]]]]
He returned in 1848 to [[Kaunas]] and self-published his first historical novel, ''Ahavat Zion.'' This is considered one of the first [[HebrewEbrei|ebree]] novels. He began work on it in 1830 but completed it only in 1853. Unable to fully subsist on his book sales, he relied on the support of his brother, Matisyahu. In 1867 he moved to [[Königsberg]] due to illness, published his last book, ''Amon Pedagogue'' (''Amon'' means something like [[MentorMentore]]), and died there.
==Valutazione critica==
==Eredità==
The romantic-nationalistic ideas in his novels later inspired [[David Ben- Gurion]]{{citation needed|date=July 2016|reason=no mention ofDavid Ben-Gurion in the one cited source, Patterson}}]] and others active in the leadership of the modern [[ZionismSionismo|Zionistmovimento movementsionista]] that led to the establishment of the state of [[IsraelIsraele]]. The American Hebrew poet, [[Gabriel Preil]], references Mapu in one of his works, and focuses on the two writers' native Lithuania.
[[File:Stamp of Israel - Abraham Mapu.jpg|thumb|upright|Israeli postal stamp, 1968]]
== Romanzi ==
* ''[[Ahavat Zion]]'' (1853) (''Amnon, Prince and Peasant'' ascome translatedtradotto byda F. Jaffe innel 1887)
* ''[[Ayit Tzavua]]'' (1858) (''Hypocrite Eagle'')
* ''[[Ashmat Shomron]]'' (1865) (''Guilt of Samaria'')
== Commemorazioni ==
Streets bearing his name are found in the [[Old Town (Kaunas)|Kaunas OldCittà TownVecchia]] and in the [[IsraelIsraele]]i cities of [[JerusalemGerusalemme]], [[Tel Aviv]], and [[KiriatKiryat Ata]]. A well-known Israeli novel called "The Children from Mapu Street" ("הילדים מרחוב מאפו") also celebrates his name. In Kaunas A. Mapu street a joyful statue of A. Mapu with a book in his hand was established by the sculpture Martynas Gaubas in 2019.
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