Joseph ben Elhanan Heilbronn () was German Hebrew scholar who lived in
Posen, then in the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and, after 1791, as the Commonwealth of Poland, was a bi- confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Poland and Lithuania ru ...
, in the sixteenth century. He wrote: ''Em ha-Yeled'', an elementary Hebrew grammar for the use of children, with conjugation tables and explanations in German (Prague, 1597); ''Me'irat 'Enayim'', the
613 commandments arranged according to
Maimonides
Musa ibn Maimon (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides (); la, Moses Maimonides and also referred to by the acronym Rambam ( he, רמב״ם), was a Sephardic Jewish philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Tora ...
(Prague, n.d.); and ''Ḳol ha-Ḳore'', a short Hebrew grammar for use in schools (Cracow, n.d.).
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16th-century German Jews
16th-century German writers
16th-century German male writers
German textbook writers
Grammarians of Hebrew
Writers from Poznań
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