Jacob Bodek (; 24 June 1819 – 18 July 1855) was a Galician ''

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'' writer.

Biography

Jacob Bodek was born in

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(now Lviv, Ukraine), where he spent most of his life. Bodek was a leading member of ''Ha-Ro'im'' ('The Spectators'), a group of conservative ''Maskilim'' opposed to the "scientific" strand of the Haskalah. Together with his brother-in-law, , he published a journal entitled ''Ha-ro'eh ve-mevaker sifre meḥavre zemanenu'' ('Spectator and Critic of Contemporary Works'; Lemberg, 1837), which contained polemical articles criticizing the work of Solomon Judah Rapoport,

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, and

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. Due to the efforts of and others, the work was banned in the Austrian Empire. The second volume was thus published in

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under a separate title. Later, he published with Mohr a periodical entitled ''Yerushalayim'' ('Jerusalem'), which appeared at irregular intervals between 1844 and 1855. The journal was less confrontational than ''Ha-ro'eh'', and generally more sympathetic to Rapoport. Bodek also republished with notes the chronicles of

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, ''Korot ha-ʻitim'' which cover the period from 1741 to 1801, and ''Korot nosafot'', a continuation until the year 1850 (Lemberg, 1851). His biography of his friend,

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, appeared in '' Ha-Maggid'' (1857). Bodek died in Lemberg in the 1855 cholera pandemic.

Publications

* Edited with A. M. Mohr. * Edited with A. M. Mohr. * Edited by Bodek, with supplementary material under the title ''Korot nosafot'' ('Additional Details'). *

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bodek, Jacob 1819 births 1855 deaths Jews from the Austrian Empire Deaths from cholera Jews from Galicia (Eastern Europe) People of the Haskalah Writers from Lviv