Se'ar shebaisha : vehu sipur yafe mezikhronot yemey neurai

Rumsch, Yitzhak ben Moshe (Isaac ben Moses Rumsch)(6 April 1822 Zezmer, Vilnius Province, Lithuania - 1894)

Published by Widow and brothers Romm Press, Vilnius, Lithuania, 1894

About this Item

In Hebrew. 114 pages. 190 x 143 mm. Title page is in Hebrew and Russian. WorldCat: Libraries worldwide that own item: 3. Pages are browned and brittle. New hardcover binding by a master bookbinder. Isaac Rumsch was a russian teacher and Hebrew author, born in the village of Zezemer,Wilnius District, April 6, 1822; died in 1894. At the age nine he went to Wilna, where he studied the Talmud in the yeshiva of his brother Joseph Rumsch, and then at the yeshiva of Rabbi Mordecai Melzer. He then studied the Bible and Hebrew grammar secretly and acquired a knowledge of German and other secular subjects. He planned to go to Germany to obtain a scientific education but his relatives thwarted this because they did not approve of such studies. When in 1853 the Russian government opened public schools to Jewish children in the Vilnius district, he, together with his friend Judah Loeb Gordon, was appointed a teacher in the school of Ponevyezh. Among other works, Rumsch was the author of: "Kur 'Oni" (Wilna, 1861; printed at the expense of the Russian government), a free Hebrew translation of "Robinson Crusoe" from the German of Rauch; "Kin'at Sifre Kodesh" (Vilnius 1873), critical glosses on L. Mandelstamm's Russian translation of the Psalms, together with notes on some of them; "Shillumat Resha'im," a story of Jewish life, and "Hatikat Bad" a Hebrew novel (Vilnius 1875); "Megillat Ester ha-Sheniyah" (Vilnius 1883), a historical novel of Esther or Esterka, the favorite of the Polish king Casimir the Great, in Hebrew based on the German; "Bat-Hayil," a historical novel of Jewish life in Spain in the fourteenth century, freely translated from Philippson and published in "Ha-Asif," 1889, v. 1-47. He contributed also many articles to "Ha-Karmel" and "Ha-Meliz" and left in manuscript some Hebrew stories and notes on the Bible. Seller Inventory # 015992

Bibliographic Details

Title: Se'ar shebaisha : vehu sipur yafe ...

Publisher: Widow and brothers Romm Press, Vilnius, Lithuania

Publication Date: 1894

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Acceptable