Asher Simcha Weissmann (Yiddish: אשר שמחה ווייסמאן, romanized: Osher Simkhe Vaysman; 21 April 1840 – 14 May 1892) was an Austrian Hebraist, rabbi, writer, and editor.
[2] After officiating for some time as director of the Jewish school of Galați, Romania, he went to Tysmenitz, Galicia,[3] and finally settled in Vienna.
[5] He contributed essays and novels to various Hebrew and Yiddish periodicals, including Ha-Mabit, Ha-Magid, Ha-Mevaser, Ha-Nesher, Ha-Ivri, Haboker or, Der izraelit, Israelitische Wochenschrift, and the Literatur-blatt, among others.
[1] Especially noteworthy were his novels Ha-Neder (in Ha-Mabit 15, 1878), treating of the moral status of the Jews; Chaim Prostak (in Moritz Rahmer [de]'s Wochenschrift, 1880), dealing with Jewish life in Galicia;[6] and Folgen Verfehlter Erziehung (in the Israelit).
[2] In 1889 Weissmann founded in Vienna a German periodical, Monatsschrift für Litteratur und Wissenschaft des Judenthums, which was issued with a Hebrew supplement.