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Jew Moon
Now I'm no longer alone. I've found Jewish names
on the moon. I'm singing a happy tune.
ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Q: I know that many of the
moon's surface features, such as
craters and peaks, are named af-
ter famous people. Are any named
for Jews?
A: If you're planning a trip to
Q: Has an Israeli Jew ever been
convicted of spying for the Soviet
Union?
A: Israel Beer (1912-1966)
spied for the Soviets.
Because he gave various ver-
sions
of his personal history, his
the moon, don't forget to check true early
biography has never
out these spots:
been
fully
established. Pre-
* Abenezra, a peak, is named
DAVID SILVERMAWMEDIA sumably, Beer was
for Avraham ibn
born in Vienna and
Ezra (1089-
had some sort of
1164), originally
military training.
of Spain. A
He made aliyah
physician, he
in 1938 and joined
was a preemi-
the Haganah. He
nent Torah corn-
quickly rose
mentator, poet,
through the ranks
grammarian,
and, during the
philosopher and
War of Indepen-
.
the foremost as-
dente, was promot-
When
you
look
to
the
heavens,
tronomer of his
ed to lieutenant
time. He wrote do you see Rabbi Levi?
colonel. After retir-
several texts on
ing from the army
theoretical astronomy.
in
1949,
he
became a military
* Beer, a crater, is named for
and taught mili-
Wilhelm Beer (1797-1850), a commentator
tary
history
at
Tel Aviv Uni-
banker, astronomer and broth- versity. At the request
of David
er of the composer, Giacomo Ben-Gurion, he prepared
of-
Meyerbeer. In 1837, he pub- ficial history of the War the
of In-
lished an atlas of the moon,
which became a standard dependence.
In 1961, Beer was arrested
work.
on
charges of having contact
* Goldschmidt, a crater, is with
a Soviet agent. He was
named for Hermann Gold- tried and
convicted of treason
schmidt (1802-66), an artist and given
a 15-year prison
and astronomer from Paris, term. He died
in prison.
France. From 1852 to 1861, he
discovered 14 new asteroids be-
Q: Is it true that the composer of
tween Mars and Jupiter.
* Messala, a crater, is named the Mexican national anthem was
for Masha'allah ben Athan Jewish?
(754-813), an Egyptian-born
A:It is indeed. Heinrich Herz
scholar who spent much of his (1802-1888) was a native of Vi-
life in Damascus and Basra. enna, a pianist and composer of
He wrote the first Arabic trea- more than 200 musical works.
tise on the astrolabe. Because
During the mid-1800s, Herz
a great deal of his work was taught in Paris and traveled
translated into Latin, he be- throughout the United States.
came the transmitter of much While visiting in Mexico, he
scientific knowledge from east wrote that country's national
to west.
anthem.
* Rabbi Levi, a crater, is
named for Levi ben Gershom
Q: As a child, I was taught that
(1288-1344), known as the Ral-
"You can't judge a
bag. An eminent talmudist,
book by its cover."
Torah commentator, math-
Is there a Jewish
ematician and astronomer,
his chief work is Sefer
version of this use-
Milchrnaot Hashern, a book
ful saying?
of philosophy and astrono-
A: There cer-
my. The greatest of the Jew-
tainly is, and it's much older
ish astronomers of the Middle than the English version. The
Ages, he pioneered new meth- second-century Rabbi Meir
ods of research and invented taught: Look not at the flask,
Jacob's Staff, an instrument but at what it contains (Pirkei
used to measure the angular Avot 4:27).
separation between two celes-
tial bodies.
* Wolf, a crater, is named for Send questions to "Tell Me Why"
Rudolph Wolf (1816-93), who c o The Jewish News, 27676
organized systematic solar Franklin Rd., Southfield, MI
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work at Zurich, Switzerland.
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