Mendel ben Ḥayyim Judah Bresslau (; 1760–1829) was a Silesian

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, writer, and bookseller. Along with fellow ''

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'' Isaac Abraham Euchel, he founded language in

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the ''

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'' society for the promotion of the

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. He published numerous articles in the organization's periodical, ''Ha-Me'assef'' ('The Collector'). Among other works, Bresslau was the author of an

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ethical

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, ''Yaldut u-baḥarut'' ('Childhood and Youth'; Berlin, 1786). He also wrote ''Gelilot Eretz Israel'', a

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of the

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with two maps (Breslau, 1819), and ''Reshit ha-keriah'' (Breslau, 1834), a Hebrew reader and grammar with the

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method.

Selected publications

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References

1760 births 1829 deaths Grammarians of Hebrew Hebraists Hebrew-language writers People of the Haskalah Silesian Jews Writers from Wrocław {{Hebrew-lang-stub