Mendel ben Ḥayyim Judah Bresslau (; 1760–1829) was a Silesian

Hebraist A Hebraist is a specialist in Jewish, Hebrew and Hebraic studies. Specifically, British and German scholars of the 18th and 19th centuries who were involved in the study of Hebrew language and literature were commonly known by this designation, a ...

, writer, and bookseller. Along with fellow ''

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Isaac Abraham Euchel Isaac Abraham Euchel ( he, יצחק אייכל; born at Copenhagen, October 17, 1756; died at Berlin, June 14, 1804) was a Hebrew author and founder of the "Haskalah-movement". He was born in Copenhagen on October 17, 1756. After his bar mitzvah ...

, he founded language in Königsberg the '' Me'assefim'' society for the promotion of the Hebrew. He published numerous articles in the organization's periodical, ''Ha-Me'assef'' ('The Collector'). Among other works, Bresslau was the author of an allegorical ethical

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, ''Yaldut u-baḥarut'' ('Childhood and Youth'; Berlin, 1786). He also wrote ''Gelilot Eretz Israel'', a geography of the

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with two maps (Breslau, 1819), and ''Reshit ha-keriah'' (Breslau, 1834), a Hebrew reader and grammar with the phonetic method.

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1760 births 1829 deaths Grammarians of Hebrew Hebraists Hebrew-language writers People of the Haskalah Silesian Jews Writers from Wrocław {{Hebrew-lang-stub