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German author
David Samoscz
Born(1789-12-29)29 December 1789
Kempen, Province of Posen
Died29 April 1864(1864-04-29) (aged 74)
Breslau, Prussia
LanguageHebrew
GenreChildren's literature, occasional poetry
Literary movementHaskalah

David ben Joseph Samoscz (Yiddish: דוד בן יוסף זאַמושׁטשׁ; 29 December 1789 – 29 April 1864) was a German author of Hebrew children's literature.

Born in Kempen, Province of Posen, he went at an early age to Breslau, where he was a tutor and private teacher until 1822, when he entered business. Having met with reverses he toward the end of his life devoted himself again to literature. He was a prolific author of stories for the young, written in Hebrew and adapted mainly from the German, and of textbooks of instruction in the Jewish religion.

Work

Samoscz contributed Hebrew poems to periodicals, such as Bikkure ha-Ittim, and to the works of his Breslau friends, M. B. Friedenthal, Jacob Raphael Fürstenthal, and others. His other works include the following:

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Deutsch, Gotthard (1905). "Samoscz, David". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 10. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 684–685.

  1. Pelli, Moshe (2010). Haskalah and Beyond: The Reception of the Hebrew Enlightenment and the Emergence of Haskalah Judaism. University Press of America. p. 195. ISBN 978-0-7618-5204-9.
  2.  Singer, Isidore; Deutsch, Gotthard (1905). "Samoscz, David". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 10. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 684–685.
  3. Catalogue of the Hebrew Books in the Library of the British Museum. London: Longman & Co. 1867. p. 669.
  4. Völpel, Annegret (2005). "Religion, German Jewish Children's and Youth Literature and Modernity". In de Maeyer, J.; Ewers, H.-H.; Ghesquière, R.; Manson, M.; Pinsent, P.; Queghebeur, P. (eds.). Religion, Children's Literature, and Modernity in Western Europe, 1750–2000. Leuven University Press. p. 117. ISBN 978-90-5867-497-5.
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