Feivel Schiffer
Feivel Schiffer | |
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| Born | 1809 Lasezow, Duchy of Warsaw |
| Died | 1871 (aged 61–62) |
| Language | Hebrew |
Feivel Schiffer (Hebrew: פַיְיבֶל שִׁיפֵער; 1809–1871) was a Polish maskilic poet and writer.
He was born in Lasezow and raised in the district of Zamość.[1] He lived successively in Josefov, Brody, and Szebrszyn before settling in Warsaw in 1835, where he opened a private school for Jewish children.[2] Schiffer's first major publication was Ḥatzerot ha-Shir, an epic poem on the life of the patriarch Jacob (Warsaw, 1840).[3]
In 1843 he published Matta Leshem, an idyll on agriculture and country life in poetic prose. Schiffer advocated for a transition to agriculture among Polish Jews, and helped settle Jews on land near Zamość with the financial backing of Prince Ivan Paskevich.[2] As an expression of gratitude, Schiffer published Davar Gevorot (Warsaw, 1845), a biography of Paskevich in Hebrew.[4]
He later published Toledot Napoleon, a biography of Napoléon Bonaparte from a pro-Russian point of view, in two parts (Warsaw, 1849 and 1857).[5][6] The work was one of the first books in Hebrew on general history.[7] His final publication was Mehalkhim im Anashim, a translation of Adolph Freiherr Knigge's Umgang mit Menschen (Warsaw, 1866).
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rosenthal, Herman; Wiernik, Peter (1905). "Schiffer, Feiwel (Phoebus)". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 101.
- ^ Jacobs, Jack (1993). On Socialists and "the Jewish Question" After Marx. New York: New York University Press. p. 199. ISBN 978-0-8147-4213-6. OCLC 23766514.
- ^ a b Tamari, Moshe, ed. (1953). "Zamość be-genona u-be-shivra" (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv: Hotsaʼat vaʻad ʻole Zamość be-Yisraʼel. p. 226.
- ^ Knowles, Elizabeth, ed. (2005). "Jacob". The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-860981-0. OCLC 60793922.
- ^ Zeitlin, William (1895). Bibliotheca Hebraica Post-Mendelssohniana (in German). Leipzig: K. F. Koehler. p. 344.
- ^ Feiner, Shmuel (2004). Haskalah and History: The Emergence of a Modern Jewish Historical Consciousness. Translated by Naor, Chaya; Silverston, Sondra. Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. pp. 166–177. ISBN 978-1-904113-10-2. OCLC 60661370.
- ^ Wodziðski, Marcin (2004). "Good Maskilim and Bad Assimilationists, or Toward a New Historiography of the Haskalah in Poland". Jewish Social Studies. 10 (3): 90. doi:10.1353/jss.2004.0017. ISSN 1527-2028. JSTOR 4467685. S2CID 161430347.
- ^ Cohen, Nathan (2015). "Distributing Knowledge: Warsaw as a Center of Jewish Publishing, 1850–1914". In Dynner, Glenn; Guesnet, François (eds.). Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis: Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Professor Antony Polonsky. IJS Studies in Judaica. Vol. 15. Leiden: Brill. p. 191. ISBN 978-90-04-29181-2. OCLC 907676545.
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