Ze'ev Wolf ben David ha-Kohen Buchner (; 1750–1820), also known as the Razbad (), was a Galician Hebrew-language grammarian and poet, considered a forerunner of the

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movement. Though he lived most of his life in

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, he traveled with Hebrew books through Germany, Galicia, Poland, and Lithuania, at times earning his livelihood by writing letters for illiterate people. His own publications were another source of income to him. He corresponded with , Jacob Landau, son of

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, and Beer Ginzburg, the Galician poet and friend of Nachman Krochmal. He suffered very much in his travels through foreign countries, and in

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he sustained an injury which cost him the sight of his right eye.

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His works include ''Zeved ha-Melitzah'' (1774), an imitation of

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's ''Takhemoni''; ''Zeved Tov'' (1794), a collection of poems; ''Keter Malkhut'' (Lemberg, 1794), a hymn in the style of

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's work of the same name; ''Shire Tehillah'' (Berlin, 1797), hymns and parodies; and ''Tzaḥut ha-Melitzah'' (Prague, 1805), a collection of his private letters. The ''Shir Nifla'' (

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, 1802) and ''Shir Yedidut'' (Frankfurt an der Oder, 1810) are partial reprints from the ''Shire Tehillah''. His parodies of the marriage and betrothal contracts were later abridged and published separately as ''Seder Tenaim Rishonim me-Ḥag ha-Pesaḥ'' (Lemberg, 1878), and wrongly ascribed to

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. About his poetry the ''

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'' writes:

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Works by Ze'ev Wolf Buchner
at the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Buchner, Ze'ev Wolf ben David ha-Kohen 1750 births 1820 deaths People from Brody Hebrew-language poets Grammarians of Hebrew 18th-century letter writers 19th-century letter writers

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