Jacob Bodek
Jacob Bodek | |
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| Born | 24 June 1819 Lemberg, Galicia, Austrian Empire |
| Died | 18 July 1855 (aged 36) Lemberg, Galicia, Austrian Empire |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Literary movement | Haskalah |
Jacob Bodek (Hebrew: יעקב בודק; 24 June 1819 – 18 July 1855) was a Galician Maskilic writer.
Biography
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
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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.
- ^ Bernfeld, Simon (1898). Toldot Shir (in Hebrew). Berlin: Aḥiʾasaf. pp. 98–100.
- ^ Katznelson, J. L.; Ginzburg, Baron D., eds. (1909). [Bodek, Yakov]. Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron (in Russian). Vol. 4. St. Petersburg: Brockhaus & Efron. p. 764.
- ^ Spicehandler, Ezra (1960). "Joshua Heschel Schorr: Maskil and Eastern European Reformist". Hebrew Union College Annual. 31: 181–222.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Kressel, Getzel (2007). "Bodek, Jacob". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Zeitlin, William (1890). "Bodek, Jacob". Bibliotheca hebraica post-Mendelssohniana (in German). Leipzig: K. F. Koehler's Antiquarium. p. 35-36.
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