Menahem Mann Ben Solomon ha-Levi Amelander was a Dutch-Jewish author and historian of the 18th century. He died before 1767.
Life
His 1743 Old Yiddish chronicle, ''
Sheyris Yisroel'' (''Remnant of Israel'') is a continuation of his Yiddish translation of ''
Josippon
''Josippon'' (or ''Sefer Yosippon'', the ''Book of Yosippon'', ) is one of the most influential medieval chronicles of Jewish history, translated into many languages and republished in many editions, and a landmark of Jewish national historiog ...
'' with a general history of the Jews in the diaspora until 1740.
He also drew on the history of
Jacques Basnage. and
Israel Zinberg
Israel Zinberg (also known as Srul, Izrail, Yisroel Tsinberg; born Sergei Lazarevich Tsinberg) (1872 or 1873 – 1938, 1939 or 1943) was a History of the Jews in Russia, Russian-Jewish chemist and a historian of Jewish literature. His work i ...
considered it the foremost representative of its genre. It was cited by
Abraham Trebitsch with his ''Qorot ha-'Ittim'' and
Abraham Chaim Braatbard with his ''Ayn Naye Kornayk.''
Zinberg called it "the most important work of Old Yiddish historiographical literature".
Further reading
Menaḥem Man Amelander, “Sheyris Yisroel (Remnant of Israel)” (manuscript, Amsterdam, 1743; first printing 1744). Republished as: Keter kehunah ve-hu sefer Yosipon bi-leshon Ashkenaz, ed. Menahem ben Solomon Amelander, vol. 2 (Fürth: Be-vet uvi-defus Ḥayim ben Tsevi Hirsh, 1767), pp. 92a–96b (ch. 34). The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.*
''Jewish Encyclopedia'' Bibliography
* Goudsmit's edition of ''Sheyrit Yisrael'';
*
Steinschneider
Moritz Steinschneider (; 30 March 1816 – 24 January 1907) was a Moravian bibliographer and Orientalist, and an important figure in Jewish studies and Jewish history. He is credited as having invented the term ''antisemitism.''
Education
Mo ...
, Cat. Bodl, No. 6365;
*
Fürst
' (, female form ', plural '; from Old High German ', "the first", a translation of the Latin ') is a German language, German word for a ruler as well as a princely title. ' were, starting in the Middle Ages, members of the highest nobility who ...
, ''Bibl. Jud.'' ii. 320;
*
Rabbinovicz, ''Katalog'', No. 12 (No. 917);
*
Roest, ''Cat. der Rosenthal'schen Bibl.'' i. 63, 64;
*
Zedner, ''Cat. Hebr. Books'', Brit. Mus. p. 531;
*
Benjacob
Isaac ben Jacob Benjacob (10 January 1801, Ramygala – 2 July 1863, Vilnius) was a Lithuanian Jewish maskil, best known as a bibliographer, author, and publisher. His 17-volume Hebrew Bible included Rashi, Moses Mendelssohn, as well as his own ...
, ''Oẓar ha-Sefarim'', pp. 218, 562.
References
Jewish historians
Historians of Jews and Judaism
17th-century_Dutch_Jews
Jewish Dutch writers
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