Mardochée Venture (Hebrew: מרדכי ונטורה, romanized: Mordekhai Ventura; c.1730 – 12 March 1789) was a French Judaic scholar and translator. He served as secretary and Hebrew interpreter at the Library of King Louis XVI (now the Bibliothèque nationale de France).[1]

In collaboration with Isaïe Vidal (1713–1771), Venture composed the Seder ha-Kontres (Avignon, 1765), a collection of liturgical chants for the use of the Jews of the county of Venaissin.[2] This compilation includes a piyyut composed by Venture, partly in Hebrew and partly in Provençal,[3] which was translated into French by Ernest Sabatier in his Chansons hébraïco-provençales des juifs comtadins (Nîmes, 1874) and by Pedro II of Brazil, in his Poésies hébraïco-provençales du rituel israélite comtadin (Avignon, 1891).[4][5] Venture's translations of prayer books were republished through the 19th century.[2]

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Kahn, S. (1906). "Venture, Mardochée". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 12. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 417.

  1. Lunel, Armand (2018). Translated by Rosenberg, Samuel N. "The Jews of the South of France". Hebrew Union College Annual. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press. 89: 94. doi:10.15650/hebruniocollannu.89.2018.0025. ISBN 978-0-87820-166-2.
  2. 1 2 Mrejen-O'Hana, Simone (2015). "Mardochée Venture". L'Écho des carrières (81).
  3. Katznelson, J. L.; Ginzburg, Baron D., eds. (1910). "Вентуре, Мордехай"  [Venture, Mordechai]. Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron (in Russian). Vol. 5. St. Petersburg: Brockhaus & Efron. p. 498.
  4. Sabatier, Ernest (1874). Chansons hébraïco-provençales des juifs comtadins. Nîmes: A. Catélan libraire.
  5. Pedro II d'Alcantara (1891). Poésies hébraïco-provençales du rituel israélite comtadin. Avignon: Seguin frère.
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