Pikowski, Michael (מיכאל פיקובסקי)
Michael Pikowski (מיכאל פיקובסקי; June 7, 1866 - October 21, 1943) was a Russian-born Israeli printer. Born in Elizabethgrad in the Russian Empire (now Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine), Pikowski attended a Russian gymnasium before moving to Vienna to learn the printing trade. He then retuned to Ukraine, opening a printshop in Odessa specializing in zincography and editing a newspaper. In 1924, he moved to Jerusalem and established a new printshop, also publishing a bi-weekly paper titled Polygraph Pages (דפים פוליגרפיים). In Jerusalem, he published a wide variety of maps, particularly of Palestine and locales therein. Many of the firm's publications were for the Mandatory Press Office of the British government of Mandatory Palestine, but at night the shop secretly printed works for the Zionist cause. Underneath the shop was a secret headquarters of the Haganah Zionist militia. After Michael's death, his son Emil took over the firm. After the founding of the State of Israel, the firm continued to print works for the new government and was also the first to publish the Isiah Scroll, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The printshop continued to operate until 1997, with its last owner being Yeshayahu Atia, a longtime employee.
AKA: מיכאל פיקובסקי
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