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Menahem Amelander
Menahem Mann Ben Solomon ha-Levi Amelander was a Dutch-Jewish author and historian of the 18th century. He died before 1767. Life His 1743 Old Yiddish chronicle, ''Sheyris Yisroel'' (''Remnant of Israel'') is a continuation of his Yiddish translation of ''Josippon'' with a general history of the Jews in the diaspora until 1740. He also drew on the history of Jacques Basnage. and Israel Zinberg considered it the foremost representative of its genre. It was cited by Abraham Trebitsch with his ''Qorot ha-'Ittim'' and Abraham Braatbard, Abraham Chaim Braatbard with his ''Ayn Naye Kornayk.'' Zinberg called it "the most important work of Old Yiddish historiographical literature". Further readingMenaḥem Man Amelander, “Sheyris Yisroel (Remnant of Israel)” (manuscript, Amsterdam, 1743; first printing 1744). Republished as: Keter kehunah ve-hu sefer Yosipon bi-leshon Ashkenaz, ed. Menahem ben Solomon Amelander, vol. 2 (Fürth: Be-vet uvi-defus Ḥayim ben Tsevi Hirsh, 1767), pp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josippon
''Josippon'' (or ''Sefer Yosippon'', the ''Book of Yosippon'', ) is one of the most influential medieval chronicles of Jewish history, translated into many languages and republished in many editions, and a landmark of Jewish national historiography. It is a history of the Roman Empire and its Jewish inhabitants from the biblical history of Adam to the age of Titus. The author writes that he is copying the works of Roman-Jewish historian Josephus to whom its name refers. It was composed in the 10th century in Byzantine Italy. The Ethiopic version of ''Josippon'' is recognized as canonical by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. It is also part of the Coptic Bible. History The anonymous author of the work writes that he is copying from the writings of the old Jewish-Roman historian Josephus, whom the author calls Joseph ben Gorion (). The name ''Joseph'' is given the Greek ending ''on'', resulting in the book's title ''Josephon'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Basnage
Jacques Basnage De Beauval (8 August 165322 December 1723) was a celebrated French Protestant divine, preacher, linguist, writer and man of affairs. He wrote a ''History of the Reformed Churches'' and on ''Jewish Antiquities''. Biography Jacques Basnage was born at Rouen in Normandy, the eldest son of the eminent lawyer Henri Basnage de Franquesnay. He studied classical languages at Saumur and afterwards theology at Geneva. He was pastor at Rouen from 1676 till 1685, when, on the revocation of the edict of Nantes, he obtained leave of the king to retire to Holland. He settled at Rotterdam as a minister pensionary till 1691, when he was chosen pastor of the Walloon church. In 1709, the grand pensionary Anthonie Heinsius secured his election as one of the pastors of the Walloon church at The Hague, intending to employ him mainly in civil affairs. Accordingly, he was engaged in a secret negotiation with Marshal d'Uxelles, plenipotentiary of France at the congress of Utrecht. He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel Zinberg
Israel Zinberg (also known as Srul, Izrail, Yisroel Tsinberg; born Sergei Lazarevich Tsinberg) (1872 or 1873 – 1938, 1939 or 1943) was a History of the Jews in Russia, Russian-Jewish chemist and a historian of Jewish literature. His work is significant in the field of Yiddish literature and Jewish literary history. Biography Zinberg was born into a Hasidic family in Lanivtsi, Lanovka, near Kremenets. His father had become an ardent ''maskil''. He attended Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, where he received a chemical engineering degree in 1895, and a doctorate from Basle University the same year. In 1898 he got a job as the manager of a chemical lab at the Kirov Plant, Putilov Plant in St. Petersburg where he worked until he was arrested in 1938. While abroad he became interested in Marxism, but it lost its attraction for him before his return to Russia in 1897. In 1914 he wrote in a letter to Samuel Niger, "In my younger years I went for a time to the Marxist synagogue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Trebitsch
Abraham ben Reuben Trebitsch (about 1760 in Trebitsch, Moravia – between 1800 and 1850 in Nikolsburg) was an Austrian Jewish scholar. He attended the yeshibah of Löb Fischels at Prague in 1775 ("Ḳorot ha-'Ittim," p. 24a), and then settled in Nikolsburg, where he became secretary to the Landesrabbiner. He was the author of "Ḳorot ha-'Ittim," a history of the European monarchs, including the emperors of Austria, from 1741 to 1801 (part i., Brünn, 1801; with additions, under the title "Ḳorot Nosafot," up to the year 1830, by Jacob Bodek, Lemberg, 1841). It deals especially with the history and literature of the Jews in the Austrian states. Trebitsch's work is a continuation of Menahem Mann ben Solomon ha-Levi's "She'erit Yisrael," which traces the history down to the year 1740.Jew. Encyc. i. 490, s.v. Amelander Trebitsch, with Hirsch Menaḳḳer, was the author of "Ruaḥ Ḥayyim," a story of the exorcising of an evil spirit that possessed a young man (publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Braatbard
Abraham Hayim ben Zvi Hirsh Braatbard (1699-1786) was an 18th-century Hebrew typesetter from Amsterdam and the author of the Yiddish chronicle ''Ayn Nayer Kornayk fun 1740 bis 1752''. Overview Braatbard's chronicle focuses on Jewish political and community life in the Dutch Republic and is a continuation of the work of Menahem Amelander. Braatbard discusses the failed Doelist movement in Amsterdam in some depth. Braatbard wrote, "As long as the world shall exist, never again will there be a time like these twelve years." Braatbard documented the succession battles of the House of Orange and the tax collectors' rebellion or ''pachtersoproer'' of 1748. He compares Daniel Raap to Haman, and had great confidence in William IV, Prince of Orange, who was a friend of Isaac de Pinto. Braatbard's manuscript likely remained in private possession until 1940 and was found after World War II in the ruins of Jewish Amsterdam. It portrays his strong opinions of the political events in Amsterda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steinschneider
Moritz Steinschneider (; 30 March 1816 – 24 January 1907) was a Moravian bibliographer and Orientalist, and an important figure in Jewish studies and Jewish history. He is credited as having invented the term ''antisemitism.'' Education Moritz Steinschneider was born in Prostějov, Moravia, in 1816. He received his early instruction in Hebrew from his father, Jacob Steinschneider ( 1782; March 1856), who was not only an expert Talmudist, but was also well versed in secular science. The house of the elder Steinschneider was the rendezvous of a few progressive Hebraists, among whom was his brother-in-law, the physician and writer Gideon Brecher. At the age of six Steinschneider was sent to the public school, which was still an uncommon choice for Jews in the Austro-Hungarian empire at the time; and at the age of thirteen he became the pupil of Rabbi Nahum Trebitsch, whom he followed to Mikulov, Moravia in 1832. The following year, in order to continue his Talmud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Fürst
Julius Fürst (; 12 May 1805, Żerków, South Prussia – 9 February 1873, Leipzig), born Joseph Alsari, was a Jewish German oriental studies, orientalist and the son of noted maggid, teacher, and Hebrew grammarian Jacob Alsari. Fürst was a distinguished scholar of Semitic languages and literature. During his years as professor in the department of oriental languages and Oriental Literature, literature at the University of Leipzig (1864–1873), he wrote many works on literary history and linguistics. Biography His father was Hebrew grammarian Jacob Alsari. At an early age, Fürst had a remarkable knowledge of Hebrew literature, Old Testament scriptures and oriental languages. In 1825, after having studied at Berlin, where Hegel and Johann August Wilhelm Neander, Neander were among his teachers, he took a course in Jewish theology at Grand Duchy of Posen, Posen. In 1829, after having abandoned his Jewish orthodoxy, he went to University of Breslau, Breslau, and in 1831 to Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raphael Nathan Nota Rabinovicz
Raphael Nathan Nota Rabinovicz (Rabbinovicz/Rabbinowitz) (1835 – November 28, 1888) authored '' Dikdukei Soferim'' (Dikdukei Sofrim), a 15-volume work containing variant readings of half the six orders of the '' Mishna'' and two tractates of the '' Babylonian Talmud''. Although he published/republished various other works, including a feature he titled Kunteres Dikdukei Soferim that appeared in a weekly Hebrew-language periodical, his ''magnum opus'' came out between 1867 and 1886. His research included visiting various European libraries. Noteworthy is its introduction's history of printings of the ''Talmud''. A sixteenth volume was published posthumously (1897). The timing of his work enabled him to use one font for the standard (Romm) Talmud and another for variants. One translation of the title "Dikdukei Sofrim" and the idea behind it is "Fine Points of the Oral Law". References Jewish writers 1835 births 1888 deaths {{Russia-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meyer Roest
Meijer Marcusz Roest (19 December 1821, in Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Re ... – 20 November 1889, in Amsterdam) was a Dutch bibliographer. Life When Roest became connected with a firm of booksellers in Amsterdam, he acquired a taste for bibliographical studies, and as a result published in 1857 ''Catalogue de livres orientaux''. Roest's best-known work is the ''Catalog der Hebraica und Judaica aus der L. Rosenthal'schen Bibliothek'' (2 vols., Amsterdam, 1875). After Baron George Rosenthal presented his collection to the Amsterdam Library, Roest was appointed custodian of it. He contributed to various Jewish periodicals, such as the ''Dutch Spectator'' and the ''Taalkundig Magazin'', and edited the (non-Jewish) ''Navorscher'' and ''Israelietische Nieuwsbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Zedner
Joseph Zedner (10 February 1804 – 10 October 1871) was a German Jewish bibliographer and librarian. After completing his education, he acted as teacher in the Jewish school in Strelitz (Mecklenburg), where the lexicographer Daniel Sanders was his pupil. In 1832 he became a tutor to the family of the book-seller A. Asher in Berlin, and later engaged in the book-trade himself; but being unsuccessful he accepted in 1845 a position as librarian of the Hebrew department of the British Museum in London. There he remained until 1869, when ill health compelled him to resign and to retire to Berlin, where he spent the last two years of his life. Shortly after his appointment, the British Museum acquired the library of the bibliophile Heimann J. Michael of Hamburg, which Zedner catalogued. Works Zedner was the author of the following works: *''Auswahl Historischer Stücke aus Hebräischen Schriftstellern vom Zweiten Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart, mit Vocalisiertem Texte, Deutsch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
