Joshua ben Isaac Bank (Yiddish: יהושע בן יצחק בּאַנק) was a Hebrew writer and rabbi at Tulchin, Polodia, born in Satanov in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Bibliography

Bank was the author of the following works:

  • Avshalom ('The Downfall of Absalom'; Odessa, 1868), a tragedy in verse, with a supplement containing a selection of tales, legends, and epigrams;[1]
  • Sipurim nifla'im ('Wonderful Tales'; Odessa, 1870), translations from other languages into Hebrew verse;[2] and
  • Rosh millin ('Beginning of Words'; Zhitomir, 1872), a concise Hebrew-Yiddish dictionary.[2]

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rosenthal, Herman; Broydé, Isaac (1902). "Bank, Joshua ben Isaac". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 491.


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