Shapiro, Joseph (יוסף שפירא )
Joseph Shapiro (יוסף שפירא) (1900 - December 4, 1967), also spelled Josef Szapiro, was a Polish-Israeli publisher and cartographer active in Israel in the middle part of the 20th century. Shapiro was born in Łódź, which was in the part of Poland partitioned by the Russian Empire. He studied at the Hebrew school in Łódź, then moved on to study economics and philosophy at Mannheim and Heidelberg, Germany, receiving a doctorate from Heidelberg in 1924. He immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1935. He began his own publishing interest around 1940, publishing maps and atlases of Israel - often covering the various wars and most up-to-date events. His final work was a series of maps illustrating the Six-Day War (June 5, 1967 - June 10, 1967). His wife, Esther Lurie (1913 - 1998), was a prominent painter. When he died of a heart attack in 1967, the publishing business passed on to his son, Shaul Shapira (1947 - ????).
AKA: יוסף שפירא
Israeli Aviation History.
A rare and fascinating c. 1955 flight map of the routes of Arkia Airlines, printed for the airline by Joseph Shapiro (or Szapiro), a prominent map publisher in the early years of the State of Israel. (more details)