Abraham A. Cappon

Abraham A. Cappon (1853 – 10 September 1931), Bosnian journalist, educator and editor of La Alborada, the first Jewish newspaper in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Biography He was born in Ruse in 1853. He lived in Ruse, Nikopol, Pleven, Sofia, Varna, Istanbul, Ploiești and Sarajevo. He was a rabbi, cantor, banker, merchant, poet, playwright, founder and editor of the newspaper La Alborado. La Alborado began to be published in 1898 in Ploiești, it was printed in Ruse. It was distributed in Romania and Serbia, to Sephardic communities that lived in isolation from the outside environment, but maintained the unity of the Sephardic cultural space despite the boundaries that the outside environment imposed on them.

He died in Sarajevo on September 21, 1930.