Issachar Dov-Ber Bampi
Issachar Dov-Ber Bampi | |
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| Born | 1823 |
| Died | 10 March 1888 (aged 64–65) Minsk, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Religion | Judaism |
Issachar Dov-Ber Bampi (Hebrew: יששכר דובער באמפּי; 1823 – March 10, 1888) was a Russian Jewish scholar, bibliophile, and philanthropist.
Biography
[edit]Issachar Dov-Ber Bampi was born in Minsk in 1823.[1] He received a comprehensive Biblical and Talmudic education, and was proficient in Hebrew. For the last thirty years of his life, Bampi delivered daily lectures on various chapters of the Bible in his private synagogue. His scholarly focus centered on tracing Jewish religious customs to their origins in both Talmuds and Midrashim. He left in manuscript the work Meḳor Minhagim ('Source of Customs') on this subject, excerpts of which were published in the yearbook Keneset Yisrael and in Ha-Kerem.[2]
Bampi fostered relationships with both Orthodox Talmudists and progressive Maskilim.[3] Among the scholars he supported was Kalman Schulman, who dedicated the third volume of his work Toledot Ḥakme Yisrael (Vilna, 1883) to Bampi.
He was a dedicated member of the Ḥovevei Zion of Minsk, actively contributed to various charitable institutions, and played a significant role in communal affairs. After his death, Bampi's extensive library, comprising about 6,000 volumes of mostly Hebraica, was sold to Aryeh Leib Friedland. This collection formed an important part of the Friedland collection, eventually donated by its owner to the library of the Asiatic Museum in St. Petersburg.[4] Many of Bampi's books contain handwritten marginal notes.
References
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Ginzberg, Louis; Wiernik, Peter (1902). "Bampi, Issachar Dob Baer". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 487.
- ^ Galron-Goldschläger, Joseph (ed.). "Isachar Dov Bampi". Leksikon ha-sifrut ha-'ivrit ha-ḥadasha (in Hebrew). Ohio State University. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
- ^ Landman, Isaac, ed. (1940). "Bampi, Issachar Dov Bär". The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York. p. 62.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Brill, Joseph (1888). Rabbinowitz, Saul Phinehas (ed.). "Rabbi Dober Bampi" (PDF). Keneset Yisrael (in Hebrew). 3: 644.
- ^ Ekaterina, Shukhman (2016). "Hebrew Palaeotypes in the Collection of the St. Petersburg IOM, RAS". Written Monuments of the Orient. 2 (2): 76–88. doi:10.17816/wmo34944. ISSN 2410-0145.
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