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Born in Oradea (Nagyvarad), Transylvania, 1908; died in Jerusa
lem, August 20, 1992. Rabbi, author. Wrote on Jewish theology, espe
cially in the wake of the Holocaust, and on the clash between
traditional Judaism and modernity.
B
i c k
, J
a c o b
S
a m u e l
.
225th anniversary of borth.
Bom in Brody, Galicia, July 6, 1772; died there in 1831. An active
contributor to the Haskalah periodicals,
Bikkure ha-Ittim. Kerem
Hemed,
and
ha-Zefirah,
where he published poems from the English and
French into Hebrew, he nevertheless defended the use of Yiddish as a
means to educating people who knew no other language. He also scan
dalized many of his friends by favoring Hasidism, especially in his later
years when he despaired of the successes of the Haskalah movement.
B
l u m e n f i e l d
, S
a m u e l
.
25th anniversary
o f
death.
Born in Letichev, Russia, September 13, 1901; died in Brooklyn,
N.Y., March 1, 1972. Rabbi, educator. Author of books and articles on
Jewish education and pedagogy.
B
r i l l in g
, B
er n a r d
. 10th anniversary of death.
Born in Germany in 1906; died in Israel in 1987. Author of nearly
50 publications in Jewish history.
C
o h e n
, M
o r t im e r
. 25th anniversary of death.
Born in New York City, March 1, 1895; died in Philadelphia, Pa.,
January 27, 1972. Rabbi and author.
C
o h e n
, S
halom
ben
J
a c o b
. 225th anniversary of birth.
Born in Meseritz, Posen, Germany, December 23, 1772; died in
Hamburg, Germany in 1845. One of the last representatives of the
Hebrew Haskalah in Germany, he tried to revive the
ha-Meassef
the
first Hebrew magazine (1809-1811) and edited the first three volumes
of
Bikkure ha-lttim
(1821-1823). An opponent of religious reform, he
published a German translation of the Orthodox pamphlet
Divre ha-
Berit,
and edited a traditional prayerbook with a German translation.
C
o s t a
, I
saac
( I
s r a e l e
). 100th anniversary o f death.
Born in Italy in 1819; died in Livorno, Italy, December 12, 1897.
Italian rabbi and author, educator, translator and poet.
D
a l v e n
, R
a e
. 5th anniversary of death.
Born in Preveza, Greece, April 25, 1904; died in New York City,
July 30, 1992. Author of articles and books on Greek-Jewish life, espe
cially on the community of Ioannina before the Holocaust.