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Lazar Lipman Hurwitz

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Lazar Lipman Hurwitz
Born1815 (1815)
Died21 October 1852(1852-10-21) (aged 36–37)
Occupation(s)Editor, writer

Lazar Lipman Hurwitz (Hebrew: אליעזר ליפמאן בן חיים הורוויץ, romanizedEliʻezer Lipman ben Ḥayyim Hurṿits; 1815 – 21 October 1852) was a Russian Jewish editor and writer.

Biography

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Hurwitz was born in 1815, the grandson of Rabbi Moses ben Isaac ha-Levi Hurwitz of Krozh.[1] He acted for many years as private instructor at Vilna, and then became teacher in a public school at Riga. Later he was appointed by the government headmaster in the rabbinical school of Vilna.

With S. J. Fuenn, Hurwitz issued a periodical entitled Pirḥe tsafon, devoted to Jewish history, literature, and exegesis; the first number appeared in 1841, the second in 1844. He was also the author of Ḥaḳirot 'al Sefer Iyyob, studies on Job, published in the second volume of Jost's Tsiyyon (1842), and Korot toledot melekhet ha-shir veha-melitsah, a history of ancient Jewish poetry, published in Pirḥe tsafon.[2]

References

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainRosenthal, Herman; Broydé, Isaac (1904). "Hurwitz, Lazar Lipman". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 507.

  1. ^  Rosenthal, Herman; Wiernik, Peter (1904). "Hurwitz, Moses ben Isaac ha-Levi". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 507–508.
  2. ^ Zeitlin, William (1890). "Hurwitz, Lazar Lipmann". Bibliotheca hebraica post-Mendelssohniana (in German). Leipzig: K. F. Koehler's Antiquarium. p. 151.