Yehoshua Ḥana Rawnitzki (Hebrew: יהושע חנא רבניצקי; 13 September 1859 – 4 May 1944) was a Hebrew publisher, editor, and collaborator of Hayim Nahman Bialik.

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Yehoshua Rawnitzki
Photograph of Rawnitzki by Zoltan Kluger
Born	(1859-09-13)September 13, 1859 Odessa, Russian Empire
Died	May 4, 1944(1944-05-04) (aged 84) Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine
Language	Hebrew, Yiddish

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Yehoshua Ḥana Rawnitzki was born to a poor Jewish family in Odessa in 1859. He began his journalistic career in 1879, by contributing first to Ha-Kol, and then to other periodicals.^[1] He was the editor and publisher of Pardes, a literary collection best known for publishing Hayim Nahman Bialik's first poem, "El ha-Tzippor," in 1892. With Sholem Aleichem (under the pseudonym Eldad), Rawnitzki (under the pseudonym Medad) published a series of feuilletons entitled Kevurat Soferim ("The Burial of Writers").^[1] From 1908 through 1911, Rawnitzki and Bialik published Sefer Ha-Aggadah ("The Book of Legends") a compilation of aggadah from the Mishnah, the two Talmuds and the Midrash literature.^[2]

Rawnitzki moved to Palestine in 1921, where he took part in the founding of the Dvir publishing house.^[3] He died there in May 1944.