Jonas Kreppel

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Jonas Kreppel (25 December 1874 – 21 July 1940) was an Austrian-Jewish scholar, writer, and publicist whose works appeared in German, Yiddish, Hebrew, and Polish. Jonas (Yoyne) Kreppel was born in Drohobycz, Galicia, in what is now Ukraine, the descendant of a Hasidic family. He moved to Vienna in 1914. In 1915, Kreppel became a press officer at the Austrian Foreign Ministry and in 1924 at the Federal Chancellery. He published patriotic articles until 1920 and edited Jüdische Korrespondenz, the journal of the Aguda, the world organization of Orthodox Jews. In 1925 he published the highlight of his career, an extensive handbook called Juden und Judentum von heute. A religious Jew, Kreppel understood Judaism as a religious community that gained strength through biblical faith and adherence to the Torah. He also published books on Hasidic legends, Jewish jokes, and the "Max Spitzkopf" series of Yiddish detective novels. From 1938 until his death, Kreppel was imprisoned at the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps. Kreppel was murdered in Buchenwald on 21 July 1940.