Background
Abraham Samson Onderwijzer was born in Muiden.
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Abraham Ben Samson ha-Kohen Onderwijzer
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He studied at the Amsterdam Rabbinical Seminary under Rabbi Doctor Joseph Hirsch Dünner. He also studied at the University of Amsterdam, from which he graduated in 1884 with a bachelor"s degree in the classics.
Career
In 1886 he was ordained as rabbi. Onderwijzer was appointed rabbi of the Ashkenazi community in Amsterdam on July 5, 1888. They had nine children.
In 1895, Rabbi Onderwijzer published a translation of the Pentateuch and Rashi"s notes.
On October 29, 1895, he founded the Jewish labor-union Betsalel, of which he was the honorary president Bezaleel cared especially for the religious needs of its members (200 in 1904), who were for the greater part diamond-workers.
With the other congregational unions of Amsterdam, Patrimonium and Saint Eduardus, it supported the Algemeene Nederlandsche Diamantbewerkers Bond (ANDBB), though Betsalel was entirely independent of that organization. Rabbi Onderwijzer died in 1934 after a collision with a tram in Amsterdam.
The Associate of Science Onderwijzerhof, a street in the center of Amsterdam located near the Joods Historisch Museum (Jewish Historical Museum), was named in his memory.
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Netherlands