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Isaac Jacob Weissberg
Born1841 (1841)
Polonki, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire
DiedJuly 1904 (1904-08) (aged 62)
Kiev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire
LanguageHebrew, Yiddish

Isaac Jacob Weissberg (Yiddish: יצחק יעקב ווייסבערג; 1841 – July 1904) was a Russian Hebrew writer and educator. He contributed articles to various Hebrew periodicals, including Ha-Melitz, Ha-Maggid, Ha-Tzfira, Ha-Shaḥar, Ha-Boker Or, Otzar ha-Sifrut, Aḥiasaf, Ha-Shiloaḥ, Ha-Goren, Ha-Pisgah, and Ha-Tikvah.

Biography

Weissberg was born in the town of Polonki, Minsk Governorate. He received his preliminary training in various ḥadarim, and then attended the yeshiva of Slonim, where he came to be regarded as one of the best Talmudic students. Later he went to Minsk, where he became acquainted with various Hebrew scholars of the Haskalah, especially with Joseph Brill (also known as Iyov of Minsk). While in Minsk, Weissberg devoted himself particularly to the study of Hebrew literature. In 1873 he established himself as a teacher of Hebrew in Kiev; many of his pupils became prominent Hebrew writers.

He made his literary debut in 1879 with the publication of a series of pedagogical articles in Ha-Melitz. His more important works include Ga'on ve-shibro, a scholarly criticism of medieval and modern literature; She'elat ha-nashim 'al pi ha-Talmud (also published in Yiddish), a work treating of the status of women according to the Talmud, as well as of the prevailing opinion regarding the authority of the Talmud; Peshuto shel Mikra 'al pi da'at (St. Petersburg, 1898), Talmudic explanations of Biblical passages; and Mishle kadmonim (Nezhin, 1901), a collection of ancient proverbs. He was the author also of exegetic notes on the Torah (published by Ezekiel Mandelstamm); and he collected and published letters by the poet J. L. Gordon, Isaac Bär Levinsohn, and Isaiah Tugendhold [Wikidata].

As a writer of the "old school," Weissberg defended the "purity" of the Hebrew language. He regarded negatively the desire of younger literati to broaden the language by the formation of new words and terms, and the influence of European literary movements in Hebrew literature.

He died in Kiev in July 1904.

Partial bibliography

Notes

  1. Also known by the pseudonyms Eḥad ha-morim, Eḥad midare mata, Aḥi tov, Iyov mi-Kiyuv, Alyeda, Elishema, Argov, Ata mi-raḥok, Ben-Tziyon, Baal-tefila, Zaken ve-ragil, Berg, Ha-levani, and Kiyuv.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rosenthal, Herman; Malachowsky, Hillel (1906). "Weissberg, Isaac Jacob". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 12. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 498.

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  3. ^ Zinberg, Israel (1910). "Вейсберг, Исаак Яков"  [Weisberg, Isaac Yakov]. In Katznelson, J. L.; Ginzburg, Baron D. (eds.). Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron (in Russian). Vol. 5. St. Petersburg: Brockhaus & Efron. p. 385.
  4. Zeitlin, William (1890). "Weissberg, Isaak Jacob". Bibliotheca hebraica post-Mendelssohniana (in German). Leipzig: K. F. Koehler's Antiquarium. p. 409.
  5. Elkoshi, Gedalyah (2007). "Weissberg, Isaac Jacob". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.
  6. Rosenblat, Moshe (8 August 1904). "Yitzḥak Yaakov Vaysberg z"l". Ha-Tzfira (in Hebrew). 31 (171): 2.
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