Isaac ben Moses Rumsch (; April 6, 1822 – August 21, 1894) was a Lithuanian

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writer, translator, and educator.

Biography

Isaac Rumsch was born in the village of Zezemer. At the age of nine he went to

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, where he studied the

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in the ''

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'' of his brother Joseph Rumsch, and then in that of Rabbi . Subsequently he acquired a knowledge of German and other secular subjects; but his plan of going to Germany to obtain a scientific education was frustrated by his disapproving relatives. When in 1853 the Russian government opened public schools for Jewish children in the government of Vilna, he, together with his friend Judah Löb Gordon, was appointed a teacher in the school of Ponevyezh. Besides numerous novels, he contributed articles to ''

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'' and ''

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'' and left in manuscript some Hebrew stories and notes on the Bible.

Publications

* A free Hebrew translation of ''

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'' from the German of Franz Rauch. * Critical glosses on 's Russian translation of the

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, together with notes on some of them. * A story of Jewish life, published alongside the Hebrew novel ''Ḥatikhat bad''. * A historical novel of

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, the mistress Polish king Casimir the Great. * A historical novel of Jewish life in Spain in the fourteenth century, freely translated from

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. *

References

External links

Works by Rumsch
at the

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