Isidore Israel Goldblum (, ''Israel Isser Goldblum''; 26 June 1863 – 2 March 1925), also known by the
pen names Peraḥ Zahav () and Yafaz (), was a
Hebrew
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writer and bibliographer.
Biography
Isidore Israel Goldblum was born to a
Jewish
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family in the town of
Neishtot Shaki, where he received a traditional religious education. He studied at the
yeshivot of
Eyshishok,
Volozhin
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, and
Pressburg
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, and later studied
Jewish law
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under Dr. Ze'ev Feilchenfeld in
Poyzn.
He devoted himself to the study and publication of Hebrew
manuscript
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s in
Berlin
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,
Paris
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,
London
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,
Oxford
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, and
Rome
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, publishing his research mainly in the periodical ''
Ha-Maggid''. In 1891 he wrote ''Vie et Œuvres de rabbi Elia Bahur le Grammairien'', a short biography of
Elye Bokher. That same year he published ''Ma'amar Bikkoret Sefarim'', and released his ''Mi-Ginzei Yisrael be-Paris'' in 1894. He corresponded with the leading Jewish scholars of his time and published a collection of these letters (''Kevutzat Mikhtavim'', 1895).
External links
Works of Isidore Goldblumat the
Online Books Page
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References
1863 births
1925 deaths
Bibliographers of Hebrew literature
Hebrew-language writers
People from Kudirkos Naumiestis
Polish bibliographers
19th-century Polish Jews
Volozhin Yeshiva alumni
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