Ze'ev Wolf ben David ha-Kohen Buchner (; 1750–1820), also known as the Razbad (), was a
Galician Hebrew-language grammarian and poet, considered a forerunner of the
Haskalah movement.
Though he lived most of his life in
Brody, he traveled with Hebrew books through Germany, Galicia, Poland, and Lithuania, at times earning his livelihood by writing letters for illiterate people. His own publications were another source of income to him. He corresponded with , Jacob Landau, son of
Yechezkel Landau, and Beer Ginzburg, the Galician poet and friend of
Nachman Krochmal. He suffered very much in his travels through foreign countries, and in
Berlin
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he sustained an injury which cost him the sight of his right eye.
Work
His works include ''Zeved ha-Melitzah'' (1774), an imitation of
Yehuda Alharizi
Yehuda Alharizi, also Judah ben Solomon Harizi or al-Harizi ( he, יהודה בן שלמה אלחריזי, ''Yehudah ben Shelomo al-Harizi'', ar, يحيا بن سليمان بن شاؤل أبو زكريا الحريزي اليهودي من أه ...
's ''Takhemoni''; ''Zeved Tov'' (1794), a collection of poems; ''Keter Malkhut'' (Lemberg, 1794), a hymn in the style of
Ibn Gabirol's work of the same name; ''Shire Tehillah'' (Berlin, 1797), hymns and parodies; and ''Tzaḥut ha-Melitzah'' (Prague, 1805), a collection of his private letters. The ''Shir Nifla'' (
Frankfurt an der Oder, 1802) and ''Shir Yedidut'' (Frankfurt an der Oder, 1810) are partial reprints from the ''Shire Tehillah''. His parodies of the marriage and betrothal contracts were later abridged and published separately as ''Seder Tenaim Rishonim me-Ḥag ha-Pesaḥ'' (Lemberg, 1878), and wrongly ascribed to
Israel Najara
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.
About his poetry the ''
Jewish Encyclopedia
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'' writes:
See also
*
Zev Wolf (disambiguation page)
References
External links
Works by Ze'ev Wolf Buchnerat the
Online Books Page
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1750 births
1820 deaths
People from Brody
Hebrew-language poets
Grammarians of Hebrew
18th-century letter writers
19th-century letter writers