Yehoshua Stampfer
{{Notability|Biography|date=January 2025}}
{{Short description|Hungarian Zionist and founder of Petah Tikva}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Yehoshua Stampfer
| image = File:YehoshuaStampfer.jpg
| native_name = יהושע שטַמפּפֶר
| native_name_lang = he
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1852|07|08}}
| birth_place = Komárno,
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1908|06|04|1852|07|08}}
| burial_place = Purple Cemetery, Petah Tikva
| known_for = co-founder of Petah Tikva
| movement = Zionism
}}
Yehoshua Stampfer (born 8 June 1852, Komárno – died 4 July 1908; {{langx|he|יהושע שטַמפּפֶר}}) was one of the founders of the city of Petah Tikva in Israel. He was a member of its first municipal council.{{Cite web |url=http://www.petah-tikva.muni.il/htmls/english/municipality.html |title=The Municipality of Petach-Tikva |access-date=2010-11-15 |archive-date=2010-07-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100726124128/http://www.petah-tikva.muni.il/htmls/english/municipality.html |url-status=dead }}
Biography
Yehoshua Stampfer was born in Komárno and raised in Szombathely, Hungary. Seeing the results of the national success of the Hungarians in 1867, Stampfer longed for a similar independence for his people in Eretz Yisrael. When he was 17, he immigrated to the Land of Israel. He later joined forces with other pioneers and established new Jewish neighborhoods outside the Old City of Jerusalem. Initially he purchased 3.2 km2 for Petah Tikva, which began with a few tents. In 1882 there were already 66 people living in Petah Tikva.
In 1898 he planted the second orchard in Petah Tikva (after the baron), there he preserved the balady citron that was selected by Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin.[https://www.dropbox.com/s/tmdl8f8411qe14b/ESROGIM.pdf?dl=0 Lengthy article by Abarham Jacob Rosenfeld], see page 468,
Yoshua's son Shlomo was later the first mayor of Petah Tikva[https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/petach_tikva/ Iriyat Petah Tikva] and his son-in-law Pinhas Globman kept on with the orchards of his father, that he managed already in the years of the founder.[https://www.dropbox.com/s/tmdl8f8411qe14b/ESROGIM.pdf?dl=0 Lengthy article by Abarham Jacob Rosenfeld], see page 468,
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