Joshua Bank
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
[edit]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
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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.
- ^ Zeitlin, William (1890). Bibliotheca hebraica post-Mendelssohniana (in German). Leipzig: K. F. Koehler's Antiquarium. p. 13.
- ^ a b Van Straalen, S. (1894). Catalogue of Hebrew books in the British Museum acquired during the years 1868–1892. London: British Museum. p. 19. hdl:2027/nnc1.cu58806237.
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