Mardochée Venture (; – 12 March 1789) was a French Judaic scholar and translator. He served as secretary and

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). In collaboration with Isaïe Vidal (1713–1771), Venture composed the ''Seder ha-Kontres'' (Avignon, 1765), a collection of liturgical chants for the use of the Jews of the county of Venaissin. This compilation includes a ''

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'' composed by Venture, partly in

and partly in

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, which was translated into French by Ernest Sabatier in his ''Chansons hébraïco-provençales des juifs comtadins'' (Nîmes, 1874) and by

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, in his ''Poésies hébraïco-provençales du rituel israélite comtadin'' (Avignon, 1891). Venture's translations of prayer books were republished through the 19th century.

Publications

* * With Isaïe Vidal. * * * * * * * * * * * * (2d ed., Paris, 1845).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Venture, Mardochée 1789 deaths 18th-century French poets 18th-century French rabbis French Hebraists French librarians French male poets Clergy from Avignon Hebrew-language poets Writers from Avignon People from Nice Provençal rabbis Translators from Hebrew Translators to French Year of birth uncertain