Jacob Bodek
Born(1819-06-24)24 June 1819
Lemberg, Galicia, Austrian Empire
Died18 July 1855(1855-07-18) (aged 36)
Lemberg, Galicia, Austrian Empire
LanguageHebrew
Literary movementHaskalah

Jacob Bodek (Hebrew: יעקב בודק; 24 June 1819 – 18 July 1855) was a Galician Maskilic writer.

Biography

Jacob Bodek was born in Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine), where he spent most of his life.

Bodek was a leading member of Ha-Ro'im ('The Spectators'), a group of conservative Maskilim opposed to the "scientific" strand of the Haskalah.[1] Together with his brother-in-law, A. M. Mohr, he published a journal entitled Ha-ro'eh ve-mevaker sifre meḥavre zemanenu ('Spectator and Critic of Contemporary Works'; Lemberg, 1837), which contained polemical articles criticizing the work of Solomon Judah Rapoport, Samuel David Luzzatto, and Isaac Samuel Reggio.[2] Due to the efforts of Joshua Heschel Schorr and others, the work was banned in the Austrian Empire.[3] The second volume was thus published in Hungary under a separate title.[4]

Later, he published with Mohr a periodical entitled Yerushalayim ('Jerusalem'), which appeared at irregular intervals between 1844 and 1855.[5] The journal was less confrontational than Ha-ro'eh, and generally more sympathetic to Rapoport.[6] Bodek also republished with notes the chronicles of Abraham Trebitsch, Korot ha-ʻitim which cover the period from 1741 to 1801, and Korot nosafot, a continuation until the year 1850 (Lemberg, 1851).[7] His biography of his friend, Zvi Hirsch Chajes, appeared in Ha-Maggid (1857).[8]

Bodek died in Lemberg in the 1855 cholera pandemic.[4]

Publications

  • Ha-ro'eh ve-mevaker sifre meḥavre zemanenu [Spectator and Critic of Contemporary Works]. Lemberg. 1837. Edited with A. M. Mohr.
  • Emek Shoshanim [Valley of Roses]. Ofen. 1839. Edited with A. M. Mohr.
  • Trebitsch, Abraham (1851). Korot ha-ʻitim: sipure kol ha-milḥamot mi-shenat 5501 ʻad 5561. Lemberg: s.n. Edited by Bodek, with supplementary material under the title Korot nosafot ('Additional Details').
  • "Toldot ha-Rav Tsvi Chayes". Ha-Maggid. 1 (8–11). 1857.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Wiernik, Peter (1902). "Bodek, Jacob, of Lemberg". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 281.

  1. ↑ Bernfeld, Simon (1898). Toldot Shir (in Hebrew). Berlin: Aḥiʾasaf. pp. 98–100.
  2. ↑ Katznelson, J. L.; Ginzburg, Baron D., eds. (1909). "Бодек, Яков"  [Bodek, Yakov]. Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron (in Russian). Vol. 4. St. Petersburg: Brockhaus & Efron. p. 764.
  3. ↑ Spicehandler, Ezra (1960). "Joshua Heschel Schorr: Maskil and Eastern European Reformist". Hebrew Union College Annual. 31: 181–222.
  4. 1 2 Gelber, N. M., ed. (1956). Encyclopedia shel galuyot: Lvov [Encyclopaedia of the Jewish Diaspora: Lwów] (in Hebrew). Vol. 1. Jerusalem & Tel Aviv: Hotsa'at ḥevrat "Encyclopedia shel galuyot". pp. 243–244, 274 – via JewishGen.
  5. ↑ Kressel, Getzel (2007). "Bodek, Jacob". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.
  6. ↑ David, Bruria Hutner (1971). The Dual Role of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Chajes: Traditionalist and Maskil (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis). New York: Columbia University. pp. 403–408.
  7. ↑ Feiner, Shmuel (2001). Haskalah and History: The Emergence of a Modern Jewish Historical Consciousness. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. pp. 130, 140, 142, 150. doi:10.3828/liverpool/9781874774433.001.0001. ISBN 978-1-80034-013-8. JSTOR j.ctv36zqqp.
  8. ↑ Zeitlin, William (1890). "Bodek, Jacob". Bibliotheca hebraica post-Mendelssohniana (in German). Leipzig: K. F. Koehler's Antiquarium. p. 35-36.
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