Simon Bondi
Simon Bondi (Yiddish: שמעון באנדי, romanized: Shimʻon Bondi; 1774 – 20 December 1816)[2] was a German maskil and lexicographer of the Talmud.
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Simon Bondi | |
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Born | 1774 |
Died | 20 December 1816 41–42) Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony, German Confederation | (aged
Literary movement | Haskalah[1] |
He wrote, together with his brother Mordecai (Marcus), the Or Ester ('Light of Esther'), a Hebrew dictionary of the Latin words occurring in the Talmud, targumim and midrashim (Dessau, 1812). They also wrote a similar work on the Greek words, which was never printed.[3] The periodical Jedidja (i. 117–125) contains a biographical obituary of Simon by his brother Mordecai.[4]
Bondi was related to the author Bernhard Beer and the court factor and banker Simon Isaac Bondi.[5][6] His sister Sophie married into the Warburg family of Hamburg.[6]
Bibliography
- Or Esther, oder Beleuchtung der im Talmud von Babylon und Jerusalem in den Targumim und Midraschim vorkommenden fremden besonders lateinischen Wörter (PDF) (in Hebrew and German). Dessau: M. Philippsohn. 1812.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Ginzberg, Louis; Berlin, Israel (1902). "Bondi, Simon". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 304.
- Schapkow, Carsten (2015). Role Model and Countermodel: The Golden Age of Iberian Jewry and German Jewish Culture during the Era of Emancipation. Lexington Books. p. 77. ISBN 978-1-4985-0803-2.
- Zunz, Leopold (1872). Die Monatstage des Kalenderjahres: ein Andenken an Hingeschiedene (in German). Berlin: M. Poppelauer. p. 67.
- Waller, J. F. (ed.). "Bondi, Simon ben Wolf". Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography. Vol. 1. Glasgow: W. Mackenzie. p. 667.
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Ginzberg, Louis; Berlin, Israel (1902). "Bondi, Simon". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 304.
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Singer, Isidore (1902). "Beer, Bernhard". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 633.
- Lohmann, Ingrid; Wenzel, Rainer; Lohmann, Uta, eds. (2014). Naphtali Herz Wesselys Worte des Friedens und der Wahrheit: Dokumente einer Kontroverse über Erziehung in der europäischen Spätaufklärung (in German). Münster: Waxmann. p. 705. ISBN 978-3-8309-8136-7.