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Silesian Hebraist (1760–1829)
Mendel Bresslau
Born1760 (1760)
Died1829 (aged 68–69)
LanguageHebrew
Literary movementHaskalah

Mendel ben Ḥayyim Judah Bresslau (Yiddish: מענדל בן חיים יהודה ברעסלוי; 1760–1829) 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. He published numerous articles in the organization's periodical, Ha-Me'assef ('The Collector').

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

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.

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  4. Steinschneider, Moritz (1852–60). Catalogus Librorum Hebræorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana (in Latin). Berlin: A. Friedlaender. p. 1743.
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  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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