Marcus Weissmann-Chajes (Hebrew: מרדכי ווייסמאן־חיות, romanized: Mordekhay Vaysman-Ḥayot; January 17, 1831 – April 30, 1914) also known by the Hebrew acronym MV"Ḥ (מו״ח), was a Galician Jewish writer.
Marcus Weissmann-Chajes | |
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| Born | January 17, 1831 Tarnów, Austrian Galicia |
| Died | April 30, 1914 (aged 83) Vienna, Austria-Hungary[1] |
| Pen name | MV"Ḥ (מו״ח) |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Literary movement | Haskalah |
Biography
editMarcus Weissmann-Chajes was born in Tarnów in 1830, the son of Yitzḥak Leib.[2] He was destined for a rabbinical career, and began at a young age to receive instruction in the Talmud and in rabbinics. Among his tutors were Israel Katz Rapoport, then av beit din of Tarnów.[3] When only ten years of age he began writing Hebrew poetry, and five years later he wrote his Mappalat ha-mitkashsherim, a metrical composition on the failure of the Polish revolt.[4] Part of this work appeared in the Maggid Mishneh (1872) under the title Aḥarit mered.
In 1872 he founded in Lemberg the Maggid Mishneh, a semimonthly periodical devoted to Jewish history and to Hebrew literature; of this publication, however, only four numbers appeared. In the following year he settled in Vienna, where he edited the thirty-seventh number of Kokheve Yitzḥak. During the years 1874 to 1876 he edited the Wiener Jüdische Zeitung, a Yiddish weekly.
Publications
edit- Mashal u-melitzah (in Hebrew). Tarnów: Druck von A. Rusinowski. 1860–1864. An alphabetically arranged collection of Talmudic proverbs rendered into metrical rimes.
- Alon bakut (in Hebrew). Lemberg: J. M. Stand. 1863. Elegies on the deaths of Mordecai Zeeb Ettinger and Jacob Gutwirth.
- Mar'eh makom ve-haggahot (in Hebrew). Krotoschin. 1866.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Index and glosses to the Jerusalem Talmud, appended to the Krotoschin edition. - Magid Mishnah (in Hebrew). Lemberg. 1872.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)[5] - Kokhve Yitzḥak (in Hebrew). Vienna. 1873.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Collection of literary-historical, philological and poetic essays promoting study of the Hebrew language.[5] - Ḥokhmah u-musar (in Hebrew). Vienna: Druck von Moritz Knöpfelmacher. 1882. Parables and legends rendered into metrical verse.
- Ḥatan Bereshit ve-ḥatan Torah (in Hebrew). Vienna: Druck von Moritz Knöpfelmacher. 1883. The 613 commandments derived by means of notarikon from "bereshit."
- Mille di-bediḥuta (in Hebrew). Vienna. 1884.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Epigrams and humorous sayings in verse. - "Seliḥah le-Shonerer". Ha-Maggid (in Hebrew). 32 (21). 1888. Polemic against Georg Ritter von Schönerer.[6]
- Divre ḥakhamim ve-ḥidotam (in Hebrew). Vol. 1. Vienna: Druck von Moritz Knöpfelmacher. 1892. Second edition of the Mashal u-melitzah, in which the Talmudic proverbs are supplied with rimed explanations.
- Osem bosem (in Hebrew). Vienna: Verlag von Jos. Schlesinger's Buchhandlung. 1913.
References
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Seligsohn, M. (1906). "Weissmann-Chajes, Marcus". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 12. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 499.
- ^ "R. Mordekhay Vaysman Ḥayot z"l". Ha-Mitzpeh (in Hebrew). 11 (20). Kraków: 6. May 15, 1914.
- ^ Wunder, Meir (1981–1982). Enzyklopediya me'orei Galicia (in Hebrew). Vol. 2. Jerusalem: Ha makhon Le-hantzaḥat Yahadut Galitzya. p. 902.
- ^ Sefer zikaron le-sofre Yisraʼel ha-ḥayim itanu ka-yom. Warsaw: Defus R. Meir Yeḥiel Halter. 1889. pp. 43–44.
- ^ Katznelson, J. L.; Ginzburg, Baron D., eds. (1910). [Weisman Hayes, Marcus]. Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron (in Russian). Vol. 5. St. Petersburg: Brockhaus & Efron. p. 389.
- ^ a b Zeitlin, William (1890). "Weismann (-Chajes), Marcus". Bibliotheca hebraica post-Mendelssohniana (in German). Leipzig: K. F. Koehler's Antiquarium. pp. 410–411.
- ^ Davidson, Israel (1966) [1907]. "Descriptive Biography of the Parodies from the Beginning of the 19th Century to the Present Day". Parody in Jewish Literature. New York: AMS Press.