David Caro (ca. 1782, Fordon,

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—25 December 1839, Posen) was a

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. He belonged to the school of the

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, and devoted his great literary talents to the enlightenment of his brethren, to the reform of Judaism, and to the cultivation of the

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. Under the pseudonym "Amittai ben Abida Achitzedeq", he defended the Hamburg Reform Temple in ''Berit Emit'' (Covenant of Truth, Dessau,"Constantinople" on title page 1820), the first part of which, ''Berit Elohim'' (Covenant of God), was published by the author himself, and the second part, ''Berit ha-Kehunnah'' (Covenant of the Priesthood), or ''Tekunnat ha-Rabbanim'' (Character of the Rabbis), by Judah Löb Mieses of

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. A new edition of the second part, with additions by Mieses, was published at Lemberg in 1879. Many of Caro's articles, essays, and poems appeared in '' Ha-Meassef'' and in the '' Bikkure ha-'Ittim''. He was a prolific writer, and left a number of manuscripts on literary, lexicographical, bibliographical, and pedagogical subjects. Among his unedited works are a Hebrew translation of

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's ''Gottesdienstliche Vorträge der Juden'', with notes and additions; a Hebrew translation of the same author's biography of

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, with notes; and biographies of celebrated rabbis.

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* N. Lippmann, ''Leben und Wirken des David Caro'', Glogau, 1840 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Caro, David 1780s births 1839 deaths Hebrew-language writers People from the Kingdom of Prussia 18th-century German Jews 19th-century German educators 19th-century German writers 19th-century German male writers People of the Haskalah