Simon Bondi (; 1774 – 20 December 1816) was a German ''

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of the

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. He wrote, together with his brother , the ''Or Ester'' ('Light of Esther'), a

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dictionary of the

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words occurring in the Talmud, ''

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im'' (Dessau, 1812). They also wrote a similar work on the

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words, which was never printed. The periodical ''Jedidja'' (i. 117–125) contains a biographical obituary of Simon by his brother Mordecai. Bondi was related to the author and the

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and banker Simon Isaac Bondi. His sister Sophie married into the

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1774 births 1816 deaths 19th-century German Jews 19th-century German lexicographers German lexicographers Linguists of Hebrew Jewish German writers Jewish lexicographers People from Dresden People of the Haskalah {{Judaism-bio-stub