Postcard sent through the Austrian post office in Eretz Israel with the handwriting and signature of Moshe Luntz, 1885

Postcard sent through the Austrian post office in Eretz Israel with the handwriting and signature of Moshe Luntz, 1885
A postcard sent through the Austrian post office in Eretz Israel with the handwriting and signature of Moshe Luntz, 1885. * Avraham Moshe Lunz (2 December 1854 - April 14, 1918) was a writer, publisher, journalist and researcher of the Land of Israel and a Jewish geographer of Lithuanian origin. In Czarist Russia, immigrated to Israel with his parents in 1869. He studied in Jerusalem at Yeshivat Etz Chaim and studied in the literature of the Enlightenment, together with Israel Dov Frumkin. Lunz founded the Moses Montefiore Library, which was the first public library in Jerusalem.

In 1873, he began to publish articles in Frumkin's newspaper Havatzelet, in which he strongly criticized the partition system and its superiors. [1] Nevertheless, he defended the Jerusalem community against the attacks of historian Heinrich Graetz. Luntz was one of the most prominent participants in the Hebrew-language journal Amani.

After publishing several articles on geographical topics, Luntz wrote in 1876 his book Netivot Zion and Yerushalayim" [2] and in 1891 published his first guide to Jerusalem in Hebrew, in the wake of the many Hebrew guides on the Land of Israel that were printed at that time Tourists and visitors to the Holy Land. From then until the end of his life he continued his research on the geography of the Land of Israel, and used for this purpose also libraries of Christian institutions, something unusual in Jerusalem at the time.