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Dov-Ber
Dov Ber, Dov-Ber or Dovber () is a pleonasm#Bilingual tautological expressions, Bilingual Hebrew-Yiddish tautological name: , literally "bear-bear", traceable back to the Hebrew word ''dov'' "bear" and the Middle High German word "bear".Ghil'ad Zuckermann, Zuckermann, Ghil'ad (2003), Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew. Palgrave Macmillan./ref> In various countries the spelling may vary: Dow Ber, Duber, etc. Notable people with the name include: *Dov Ber Abramowitz, an American Orthodox rabbi and author *Dov Ber Birkenthal *Dov Ber Borochov *Dow Ber Meisels (1798-1870), Polish rabbi *Dov Ber of Mezeritch, a disciple of Hasidic founder Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov *Dov Ber Nathanson *Dov-Ber Rasofsky (Barney Ross), American world champion Hall of Fame lightweight and junior welterweight boxer *Dovber Schneuri, also known as the Mitteler Rebbe ("Middle Rebbe" in Yiddish) *Abraham Dov Ber Gottlober *Avraham Dov Ber Kahana *Avraham Dov Ber Lebensohn *Chaim Avrah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dov-Ber Rasofsky
Barney Ross (born Dov-Ber "Beryl" David Rosofsky; December 23, 1909 – January 17, 1967) was an American professional Boxing, boxer. Ross became a List of boxing triple champions, world champion in three weight divisions and was a decorated veteran of World War II. In his time, he was known as the Pride of the Ghetto. Early life Dov-Ber (or Beryl) Rosofsky was born in New York City to Isidore "Itchik" Rosofsky and Sarah Epstein Rosofsky. His father was a Talmudic scholar who had emigrated to America from his native Brest-Litovsk after barely surviving a pogrom. The family then moved from New York to Chicago. Isidore became a rabbi and owner of a small vegetable shop in Chicago's Maxwell Street neighborhood, a vibrant Jewish ghetto akin to the New York's Lower East Side of the 1920s and '30s. Dov-Ber was being raised to follow in his footsteps. The young Rasofsky grew up on Chicago's mean streets, ultimately ignoring his father's desire for him to become a rabbi and his admonit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Issachar Dov-Ber Bampi
Issachar Dov-Ber Bampi (; 1823 – March 10, 1888) was a Russian Jewish scholar, bibliophile, and philanthropist. Biography Issachar Dov-Ber Bampi was born in Minsk in 1823. He received a comprehensive Biblical and Talmudic education, and was proficient in Hebrew. For the last thirty years of his life, Bampi delivered daily lectures on various chapters of the Bible in his private synagogue. His scholarly focus centered on tracing Jewish religious customs to their origins in both Talmuds and Midrashim. He left in manuscript the work ''Meḳor Minhagim'' ('Source of Customs') on this subject, excerpts of which were published in the yearbook ''Keneset Yisrael'' and in ''Ha-Kerem''. Bampi fostered relationships with both Orthodox Talmudists and progressive Maskilim. Among the scholars he supported was Kalman Schulman, who dedicated the third volume of his work ''Toledot Ḥakme Yisrael'' (Vilna, 1883) to Bampi. He was a dedicated member of the Ḥovevei Zion of Minsk, actively contri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoel Dov-Ber Perski
Yoel Dov-Ber Perski (; 1816 – 17 November 1871), also known as Yoel Ber Kohen (), was a Hebrew writer and translator. His publications include ''Kevod Melakhim'' (Königsberg and Vilna, 1851–53), a translation of François Fénelon's '' Les aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse'', and ''Ḥayyei Asaf'' (Warsaw, 1858), a translation of Aesop's Fables, along with a biography of their author. He also wrote ''Sefer Neveh Tehilah'' (1846), a Passover Haggadah with commentary; ''Heikhal Ra'anan'' and ''Shemen Ra'anan'' (Vilna, 1863), commentaries on the ''Yalkut Shimoni The ''Yalkut Shimoni'' (), or simply ''Yalkut'', is an aggadic compilation on the books of the Hebrew Bible. It is a compilation of older interpretations and explanations of Biblical passages, arranged according to the sequence of those portions ...''; and ''Battei Kehunnah'', a commentary on '' Bereshit Rabba'' and '' Shemot Rabba''. Partial bibliography * * * * * * References 1816 births 1871 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avraham Dov Ber Lebensohn
Abraham Dov Ber Lebensohn (; – November 19, 1878), also known by the pen names Abraham Dov-Ber Michailishker () and Adam ha-Kohen (), was a Lithuanian Jewish Hebraist, poet and educator. Biography Avraham Dov Ber Lebenson was born in Katloŭka about Vilna. He became interested in Hebrew grammar and punctuation when studying the weekly portions of the Law for his bar-mitzvah. He was married, according to the custom of those times, right after his bar mitzvah and he spent the next eight years with his wife's parents in Michališki. This gave him the surname "Michailishker," which accounts for the last letter of his pen-name "Adam" (formed from the initials of Abraham Dob Michailishker). The family name "Lebensohn," which he adopted, is a literal translation of "ben Ḥayyim." He lived for four years in Oshmiany, where he attempted to establish himself as a merchant. He was an accomplished rabbinic scholar, but devoted most of his leisure time to the study of Hebrew poetical a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avraham Dov Ber Kahana
Avraham Dov-Ber Kahana Shapiro (1870 – February 27, 1943) was the last Chief Rabbi of Kovno (Kaunas, Lithuania) and the author of ''Devar Avraham'', a three-volume collection of responsa (answers to questions of religious practice). Biography He was born in 1870 to Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Sender, a Kohen (hereditary Jewish priest) and author of Sefer Chidushei HaGarzas on Kodshim, on October 5 on the night immediately following Yom Kippur, in the city of Kobryn. He was a descendant of Rabbi Chaim Volozhin. He studied in the Volozhin Yeshiva. The first volume of his magnum opus, the ''Devar Avraham'', was published in 1906 when he was thirty-five years old. Army service At 18 years old he was drafted into the Russian army and sent to Minsk, where he used his limited spare time to "clandestinely enter the local Beis Midrash (study house)... The Rav abbiof Minsk, R bbiYerucham Yitzchak Perlman" worked to obtain his release, and subsequently "took him as a son-in-law." Rabbi In 1896 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dov Ber Of Mezeritch
Dov Ber ben Avraham of Mezeritch (; died December 4, 1772 Old Style, O.S.), also known as the ''Maggid of Velyki Mezhyrichi, Mezeritch'' or ''Mezeritcher Maggid'', was a disciple of Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer (the Baal Shem Tov), the founder of Hasidic Judaism, and was chosen as his successor to lead the early movement. Dov Ber is regarded as the first systematic exponent of the mystical philosophy underlying the teachings of the Baal Shem Tov, and through his teaching and leadership, the main architect of the movement.see Kaufmann Kohler & Louis Ginzberg"Baer (Dov) of Meseritz" ''Jewish Encyclopedia'', retrieved May 20, 2006 He established his base in Velyki Mezhyrichi, Mezhirichi (in Volhynia), which moved the centre of Hasidism from Medzhybizh (in Podolia), where he focused his attention on raising a close circle of disciples to spread the movement. After his death the third generation of leadership took their different interpretations and disseminated across appointed regions o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pleonasm
Pleonasm (; , ) is redundancy in linguistic expression, such as "black darkness", "burning fire", "the man he said", or "vibrating with motion". It is a manifestation of tautology by traditional rhetorical criteria. Pleonasm may also be used for emphasis, or because the phrase has become established in a certain form. Tautology and pleonasm are not consistently differentiated in literature. Usage Most often, ''pleonasm'' is understood to mean a word or phrase which is useless, clichéd, or repetitive, but a pleonasm can also be simply an unremarkable use of idiom. It can aid in achieving a specific linguistic effect, be it social, poetic or literary. Pleonasm sometimes serves the same function as rhetorical repetition—it can be used to reinforce an idea, contention or question, rendering writing clearer and easier to understand. Pleonasm can serve as a redundancy check; if a word is unknown, misunderstood, misheard, or if the medium of communication is poor—a static-fille ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dov Ber Nathanson
Bernhard Nathanson (22 April 1832 – 2 February 1916), born David Ber Nathanson or Dov Ber Nathanson (, ), was a Jewish Russian Hebrew journalist and author. He was the biographer and publisher of the writings of Isaac Baer Levinsohn. Biography Bernhard Nathanson was born to a wealthy Jewish family in Satanov, Podolia. He his early Hebrew education under Yosef Tzvi Polichinetzki and then under the supervision of his own father, and received rabbinical ordination in 1850. Under the influence of the Haskalah, Nathanson went to Odessa after his father's death in 1853, where he devoted himself to both Jewish and secular studies. There he co-operated with Jacob Israel Levinsohn, the nephew of Isaac Baer Levinsohn, in copying and revising the latter's manuscripts. Nathanson was occupied for three years on Levinsohn's ''Aḥiyah ha-Shiloni ha-Ḥozeh'' and ''Zrubavel''. From 1871 to 1875 Nathanson lived in various places in Bessarabia, settling in Warsaw in 1875 in connection with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dov Ber Abramowitz
Dov Ber Abramowitz (; 1860 – 1926) was an American Orthodox Rabbi and author. Born in Vabalninkas, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire, (today part of Lithuania), he moved with his family to Jerusalem in 1870, at the age of ten. After being ordained by Rabbi Shmuel Salant, he served as a district rabbi in Jerusalem. In 1894, he immigrated to the United States. A few years later he was appointed as the chief '' dayyin'' of St. Louis. He was one of the founders of the Agudath Harabbinim. He formed the first branch of Mizrachi in the United States in St. Louis and served as president of the American Mizrachi. He died in Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine. His grandson was Abraham Leon Sachar. Name The Yiddish name דוב-בער ''Dov-Ber'' literally means "bear-bear", traceable back to the Hebrew word דב ''dov'' "bear" and the German word ''Bär'' "bear". Zuckermann, Ghil'ad (2003), Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew. Palgrave Macmillan. //ref> It is thu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dovber Schneuri
Dovber Schneuri (13 November 1773 – 16 November 1827 OS) was the second Rebbe (spiritual leader) of the Chabad Lubavitch Chasidic movement. Rabbi Dovber was the first Chabad rebbe to live in the town of Lyubavichi (in present-day Russia), the town for which this Hasidic dynasty is named. He is also known as the Mitteler Rebbe ("Middle Rebbe" in Yiddish), being the second of the first three generations of Chabad leaders. Biography Rabbi Schneuri was born in Liozna, modern day Belarus, on 9 Kislev 5534. His father, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, was Rebbe of the community there, and of many Chassidim in White Russia and Lithuania, and other parts of Russia. His father named him after his own teacher, Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezeritch, a disciple and successor of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of the Chassidic movement. The Yiddish first name דוב-בער ''Dov-Ber'' literally means "bear-bear", traceable back to the Hebrew word דב ''dov'' "bear" and the German word ''Bär'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dow Ber Meisels
Dow (Dov, Dob) Ber (Beer, Berisz, Berush) Meisels (1798 – 17 March 1870) was a Chief Rabbi of Kraków (Cracow) from 1832 and later, Chief Rabbi of Warsaw (from 1856). He was active in the Polish nationalist movement, and was a politician in the Austrian partition of Poland and (later) in the Russian partition. A vocal supporter of Polish-Jewish cooperation, he supported the cause of Polish independence, for which he was persecuted by the Russian government. Biography Dow Ber Meisels was the son of Isaac from the Silesian town of Szczekociny, and a descendant of Mordecai Maisel of Prague, though the Meisels family came from Kraków's Jewish community; he also lived as a youth in Kamianets-Podilskyi, where his father was a rabbi.Jewish Encyclopedia After marrying the daughter of the wealthy Solomon Bornstein of Wieliczka, he settled as a banker and rabbi in Kraków. He supported the cause of Polish independence, providing weapons for the insurgents in the November Uprising; some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yisrael Baal Shem Tov
Israel ben Eliezer (According to a forged document from the "Kherson Geniza", accepted only by Chabad, he was born in October 1698. Some Hasidic traditions place his birth as early as 1690, while Simon Dubnow and other modern scholars argue for a date around 1700. –1760), known as the Baal Shem Tov (; ) or BeShT (), was a Jewish mystic and healer who is regarded as the founder of Hasidic Judaism. A ''baal shem tov'' is a "Master of the Good Name," that is, one able to work miracles using the secret name of God. Other sources explain his sobriquet as arising from a reputation of being a saintly, or superior, Baal Shem "miracle-worker", hence he was given the nickname Baal Shem ''Tov'', the "good Baal Shem". Biographical information about the Baal Shem Tov comes from contemporary documents from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the legendary traditions about his life and behavior collected in the ''Praise of the Besht'' (). A central tenet of the teachings associated w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
