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Bikkure Ha-Ittim
''Bikkure ha-Ittim'' () was a Hebrew-language annual published in Vienna from 1820 to 1831. Founded by Salomon Jacob Cohen, it was adopted by the Galician Maskilim as their means to promote culture and education among Galician Jews. The publication was a forerunner of modern Hebrew journalism and played a significant role in the revival of the Hebrew language. History ''Bikkure ha-Ittim'' originally appeared as a supplement to the Hebrew calendar ''Ittim Mezumanim''. In 1822, it stopped being a supplement and became an independent magazine. The magazine mostly featured contributions from writers in Galicia, Bohemia, and the Italian-Austrian provinces. It had a significant impact on European Jews in the first half of the 19th century. According to Delitzsch, ''Bikkure ha-Ittim'' also became the publication of the New-German school of poetry in Austria, with the influence of Schiller as evident in the magazine as Lessing's influence was in '' Ha-Me'assef''. The early issues of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salomon Jacob Cohen
Salomon Jacob Cohen (; 23 December 1771 - 20 February 1845) was a German Jewish Hebrew scholar, teacher, writer and translator of the Bible. He was an important representative of the Haskalah in Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna. Life Cohen was born in Międzyrzecz ( Greater Poland), which after the Second Partition of Poland became administered as part of South Prussia. As a teenager, he went to Berlin, where he studied with Naphtali Hirz Wessely and developed an appreciation of Hebrew poetry. He was soon regarded as an outstanding stylist of Hebrew. From 1800 to 1808, he taught Hebrew and religion at the Jewish Free School in Berlin, founded by David Friedländer. In 1808, he founded the Society of Friends of the Hebrew Language (''Gesellschaft der Freunde der hebräischen Sprache''). From 1809 to 1811, he was the last editor of the first Hebrew literary journal ''Ha-Meassef'', which he tried unsuccessfully to revive. Cohen also lived in Altona, Hamburg, Dessau, and London before settl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (, ; 22 January 1729 – 15 February 1781) was a philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, and a representative of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature. He is widely considered by theatre historians to be the first dramaturg in his role at Abel Seyler's Hamburg National Theatre. Life Lessing was born in Kamenz, a small town in Saxony, to Johann Gottfried Lessing and Justine Salome Feller. His father was a Lutheran minister and wrote on theology. Young Lessing studied at the Latin School in Kamenz from 1737 to 1741. With a father who wanted his son to follow in his footsteps, Lessing next attended the Fürstenschule St. Afra in Meissen. After completing his education at St. Afra's, he enrolled at the University of Leipzig where he pursued a degree in theology, medicine, philosophy, and philology (1746–1748). It was here that his relationship with Karoline Neube ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Chorin
Aaron Chorin ( he, אהרן חארין; August 3, 1766August 24, 1844) was a Magyars, Hungarian rabbi and pioneer of early Reform Judaism, religious reform. He favored the use of the organ (music), organ and of prayers in the vernacular, and was instrumental in founding schools along modern lines. Endnote: See L. Löw, ''Gesammelte Schriften'', ii, 251. Chorin became a pivotal figure for reformers, although he himself still operated inside a traditional framework. He also interested himself in public affairs—he took an active part in the efforts for Jewish emancipation, and was very influential with the state authorities. Early years Chorin was born in Hranice (Přerov District), Moravia, Austria (now in the Czech Republic) in 1766. At the age of fourteen he studied in the ''yeshivah'' of Jeremiah Mattersdorf, Rabbi Jeremiah Mattersdorf in Mattersburg, Austria, and two years later at Prague in the higher Talmudical school of Ezekiel Landau. Here he also learned German language, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Caro
David Caro (ca. 1782, Fordon, Grand Duchy of Posen—25 December 1839, Posen) was a Prussian pedagogue. He belonged to the school of the Me'assefim, and devoted his great literary talents to the enlightenment of his brethren, to the reform of Judaism, and to the cultivation of the Hebrew language. Under the pseudonym "Amittai ben Abida Achitzedeq", he defended the Hamburg Reform Temple in ''Berit Emit'' (Covenant of Truth, Dessau,"Constantinople" on title page 1820), the first part of which, ''Berit Elohim'' (Covenant of God), was published by the author himself, and the second part, ''Berit ha-Kehunnah'' (Covenant of the Priesthood), or ''Tekunnat ha-Rabbanim'' (Character of the Rabbis), by Judah Löb Mieses of Lemberg. A new edition of the second part, with additions by Mieses, was published at Lemberg in 1879. Many of Caro's articles, essays, and poems appeared in '' Ha-Meassef'' and in the '' Bikkure ha-'Ittim''. He was a prolific writer, and left a number of manuscripts on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berish Blumenfeld
Berish Blumenfeld (; 1779–1853) was a Galician Jewish Hebraist. He was the author of a German translation of the Book of Job, which he published with a Hebrew commentary (Vienna, 1826). A poem, "Motar ha-Adam" (), by Blumenfeld, was published in '' Bikkure ha-'Ittim''. He also published the works of Eliakim ben Judah ha-Milzahgi under the title ''Sefer Ravyah'' (Ofen, 1837). Blumenfeld's views on the authorship and date of Job were the subject of a correspondence with Samuel David Luzzatto, who insisted that Job was one of the oldest books of the canon. Blumenfeld corresponded as well with Isaac Baer Levinsohn and assisted in the spread of the latter's works. He was an intimate friend of , who dedicated to him his Hebrew translation of Manasseh ben Israel Manoel Dias Soeiro (1604 – 20 November 1657), better known by his Hebrew name Menasseh ben Israel (), also known as Menasheh ben Yossef ben Yisrael, also known with the Hebrew acronym, MB"Y or MBI, was a Portuguese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Samuel Bick
Jacob Samuel Bick (; 6 July 1772 – 21 May 1831) was a Galician Maskilic author, playwright, and translator. Bick translated a number of French and English poems into Hebrew, and published biographies of Menachem Mendel Lefin, Ephraim Zalman Margolioth, Judah Leib Ben-Ze'ev, and others. His contributions to the ''Bikkure ha-ittim'', ', and other Hebrew publications of his time contain strong pleas for the spread of secular knowledge and industry among Galician Jews; and, like many of his contemporaries among the Maskilim, he was strongly in favor of agricultural pursuits by Jews. He died of cholera Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium ''Vibrio cholerae''. Symptoms may range from none, to mild, to severe. The classic symptom is large amounts of watery diarrhea that lasts a few days. Vomiting and ... during an 1831 epidemic and left several manuscript works, both in prose and poetry. They were burned in the Great Fire in Brody in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Ben Jacob Benjacob
Isaac ben Jacob Benjacob (January 10, 1801, Ramygala – July 2, 1863, Vilnius) was a Lithuanian Jewish Maskil, best known as a bibliographer, author, and publisher. His 17-volume Hebrew Bible included Rashi, Mendelssohn, as well as his own ''Mikraei Kodesh'' which "emended" the biblical text and helped spread the Haskalah movement. Biography and works Before he learned Russian his parents moved to Vilnius, "and there he received instruction in Hebrew grammar and rabbinical lore."Pending further edits, "Biography and works" is a rewrite of AND THE SINGLE SOURCE for the rest of this Wiki article. Benjacob began to write early, and composed short poems and epigrams in pure Biblical Hebrew which are among the best of their kind in Neo-Hebraic literature. For several years he lived in Riga, where he was engaged in business, always studying and writing in his leisure hours. Later he became a publisher and book-seller and went to Leipzig, where he published his first work, ''Miktami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Aberle
Abraham (Rabel) Aberle (28 July 1811 – 9 March 1841) was a Moravian Hebrew poet, translator, and writer from Austerlitz Austerlitz may refer to: History * Battle of Austerlitz, an 1805 victory by the French Grand Army of Napoleon Bonaparte Places * Austerlitz, German name for Slavkov u Brna in the Czech Republic, which gave its name to the Battle of Austerlitz a .... All his literary productions—poems, metrical translations, exegetical notes, and riddles—were published in the periodical '' Bikkure ha-'Ittim''. References 1811 births 1841 deaths Czech Jews Hebrew-language poets Translators to Hebrew People from Slavkov u Brna 19th-century translators {{Judaism-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isidor Bush
Isidor Bush or Busch (January 15, 1822, Prague – August 5, 1898, St. Louis, Missouri) was a man of letters, publisher, and viticulturalist. His maternal great-grandfather was , the first Jew raised to nobility in Austria. "Jahrbücher" At age 15, he entered Anton von Schmid's printing establishment in Vienna, which his father had acquired. The Talmud published with the imprint of Von Schmid and Bush was prized for some time afterwards for its exactness. For six years (1842–47) Bush edited and published the ''Kalender und Jahrbuch für Israeliten'' (Vienna). Its plan was the presentation in the same book of the productions of leading Jewish scholars of divergent views. Among these were S. L. Rapoport, S. D. Luzzatto, Gotthold Salomon, Ludwig Philippson, Isaac Noah Mannheimer, Theodor Creizenach, Ludwig August von Frankl, Leopold Kompert, and Leopold Löw. Some of these made their first appearance as writers in the pages of the "Jahrbücher." In 1844 he edited ''Mesillat ha- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Emanuel Stern
Max Emanuel Stern (9 November 1811 – 9 February 1873), also known as Mendel b'ri Stern (), was a Hungarian-born Hebraist, writer, poet, and translator. Biography Born to Jewish parents in Presburg in 1811, Stern first studied under his father Isak, who was a teacher at the local Jewish primary school. When his father became blind, Max, then only fourteen years of age, took charge of his classes, devoting his nights to further study and to writing his ''Dichtungen'', his ''Maslul'', and his ''Perlenblumen'', the latter being metrical translations of the Proverbs. His poems first appeared in print in 1827. Stern held the teaching position for nine years, resigning upon his father's death in late 1832. The following year he accepted the position of literary advisor and proofreader for Anton Edler von Schmid's printing press at Vienna. He was appointed principal of the Hebrew-German school at Eisenstadt in 1835, where he wrote his epic ''Tif'ereth ha-Tishbi'', a biography of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Erter
Isaac Erter (, ; 1792 – April 1851) was a Polish-Jewish satirist and poet of the Galician Haskalah. His Hebrew prose has been compared to that of writers Heinrich Heine and Ludwig Börne. Biography Isaac Erter was born into the family of a poor Jewish innkeeper in the Galician town of Koniuszek, near Przemyśl. At the age of 13, his father arranged for him to marry a rabbi's daughter, who, however, died within the first year after her marriage. A second marriage followed soon after, and Erter went to live with his father-in-law in Wielkie Oczy. There he was introduced to Jewish philosophy and Hebrew literature by ''maskil'' Yosef Tarler. Erter began associating with the Ḥasidic movement, but after a time abandoned it and settled in Lemberg in 1813. In that city he joined the ''maskilic'' circles of Solomon Löb Rapoport, Nachman Krochmal, Judah Löb Mieses, and others. Through the efforts of some of his friends, he obtained pupils whom he instructed in Hebrew langu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Samuel Reggio
Isaac Samuel Reggio (YaShaR) (Hebrew: , ) (15 August 1784 – 29 August 1855) was an Austro-Italian scholar and rabbi. He was born and died in Gorizia. Reggio studied Hebrew and rabbinics under his father, Abraham Vita, later rabbi of Gorizia, acquiring at the same time in the gymnasium a knowledge of secular science and languages. Reggio's father, one of the liberal rabbis who supported Hartwig Wessely, paid special attention to the religious instruction of his son, who displayed unusual aptitude in Hebrew, and at the age of fourteen wrote a metrical dirge on the death of Moses Ḥefeẓ, rabbi of Gorizia. Skills Besides Italian, his mother tongue, Reggio knew French, German, and Latin, and he studied several Semitic languages in addition to Hebrew. He possessed a phenomenally clear, if not profound, intellect, and as mathematics offered the widest field for his analytical talent, it was at first his favorite study. In 1802 he published in the ''Neuwieder Zeitung'' the solut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
