Abraham Jacob Paperna (Hebrew: אברהם יעקב פפירנא; 30 August 1840 – 18 February 1919) was a Russian Jewish educator and author.

He received a fair education, including the study of the Bible with Moses Mendelssohn's translation, Hebrew grammar, Talmud, and secular literature.

Critical articles by him, entitled Kankan ḥadash male’ yashan (in Ha-Karmel, 1867, and printed separately in Vilna), attracted wide attention in the circles of the Maskilim.

He also ridiculed the presumption of some of the young Maskilim, who from a desire for fame attempted to write books in Hebrew on botany, astronomy, and the other exact sciences, with which they were entirely unfamiliar.

In 1869 Paperna published an article on the Russification of Jews in Congress Poland, entitled K yevreiskomu voprosu v Vislyanskom kraye ('On the Jewish question in the Vistula Land', in Den, No.