Mendel Bresslau
Born1760 (1760)
Died1829 (aged 6869)
LanguageHebrew
Literary movementHaskalah

Mendel ben Ḥayyim Judah Bresslau (Yiddish: מענדל בן חיים יהודה ברעסלוי; 1760–1829)[1] was a Silesian Hebraist, writer, and bookseller.

Along with fellow Maskil Isaac Abraham Euchel, he founded language in Königsberg the Me'assefim society for the promotion of the Hebrew.[2][3] He published numerous articles in the organization's periodical, Ha-Me'assef ('The Collector').[4]

Among other works, Bresslau was the author of an allegorical ethical dialogue, Yaldut u-baḥarut ('Childhood and Youth'; Berlin, 1786).[5] He also wrote Gelilot Eretz Israel, a geography of the Land of Israel with two maps (Breslau, 1819),[6] and Reshit ha-keriah (Breslau, 1834), a Hebrew reader and grammar with the phonetic method.[7]

Selected publications

  • Yaldut u-baḥarut [Childhood and Youth] (in Hebrew). Berlin: Ḥevrat ḥinukh naʻarim. 1786.
  • Gelilot Eretz Israel (in Hebrew). Breslau: L. Zultsbakh. 1819.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Deutsch, Gotthard; Mannheimer, S. (1902). "Bresslau, Mendel ben Ḥayyim Judah (also Bresslauer or Breslauer)". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 373.

  1. Sluys, D. E.; Hoofiën, Jacob (1873). "Vierde tijdvak. Van Mendelssohn tot op den tegenwoordigen tijd (1760–1870)". Handboek voor de geschiedenis der Joden (in Dutch). Vol. 3. Amsterdam: J. B. de Mesquita. p. 516.
  2. Wise, Isaac M. (1900). Philipson, David; Grossmann, Louis (eds.). Selected Writings of Isaac M. Wise. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke Company. pp. 323–329.
  3. Slouschz, Nahum (2019). The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743–1885). Good Press.
  4. Steinschneider, Moritz (1852–60). Catalogus Librorum Hebræorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana (in Latin). Berlin: A. Friedlaender. p. 1743.
  5. Eisenstein, J. D. (1912). Otsar Yisraʼel. Entsiklopedyah le-khol miktsoʻot torat Yisraʼel, sifruto ve-divre yamav (in Hebrew). Vol. 7. p. 267.
  6. Zeitlin, William (1890). Bibliotheca hebraica post-Mendelssohniana (in German). Leipzig: K. F. Koehler's Antiquarium. pp. 40–41.
  7. Fürst, Julius (1863). Bibliotheca Judaica: Bibliographisches Handbuch der gesammten jüdischen Literatur (in German). Vol. 1. Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann. p. 131.
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