Senior Sachs

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Senior Sachs (Template:Langx; 17 June 1816 – 18 November 1892), also known as the Or shani (Script error: No such module "Lang".),[1]Template:R/superscript was a Russo-French Hebrew writer and scholar.

Biography

Early life and education

Senior Sachs was born to a Jewish family in Kaidany, Kovno Governorate.[2]Template:R/superscript He was raised in Zhagory, where his father, Tzemaḥ Sachs, was appointed rabbi when Senior was one and one-half years old. He studied Hebrew and Talmud under his father's tutelage, and while still a boy, manifested a predilection for Hebrew literature.[3]Template:R/superscript

Sachs became acquainted with the parnas of the Kaidany community, who introduced him to Maskilic literature,[3]Template:R/superscript including the works of Isaac Erter. Erter's writings so impressed him that he considered immediately moving to Brody in order to study under him, but Sachs' early marriage, in accordance with the custom of that time, prevented him. Instead, he studied for one year on a scholarship in the Wasilishok bet ha-midrash and taught for a year in Dubno.[3]Template:R/superscript In around 1839 Sachs moved to Brody, where Erter assisted him in finding employment teaching Hebrew. Meanwhile, he studied German and Syriac, and devoted the greater part of his time to reading scientific and philosophical works.

Career

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Title page of Ha-Yonah (1851).

Sachs remained two years in Brody, and while there wrote an article in Hebrew on Russo-Hebrew scholars and on the education of the Jews in Russia; this he sent to Isaak Markus Jost, who translated it into German, and published it anonymously in his Israelitische Annalen (1840, nos. 4–10). His parents having requested him to return home, Sachs set out on his journey, but, having no passport, was arrested on the Russian frontier. He was brought to Kremenets, where he was thrown into prison, remaining in confinement five months, when he was liberated through the efforts of Isaac Baer Levinsohn. Sachs stayed at Zhagory six months, when he was invited to teach at Rossiena, where he befriended novelist Abraham Mapu.[4]Template:R/superscript He remained there until the end of 1843. At length he went to Berlin (1844), where he entered the university, attending particularly the lectures of Schelling and Althaus.[3]Template:R/superscript In 1856 Sachs was invited to Paris by Baron Joseph Günzburg to become his private librarian and the tutor of his children.[3]Template:R/superscript

In Paris Sachs displayed great activity in various branches of Hebrew literature, but as he occupied himself with different subjects at one and the same time, most of his works remained unfinished. While in Berlin he had begun to edit literary periodicals, the first of which was Ha-Teḥiyyah, treating chiefly of medieval religious philosophy.[5]Template:R/superscript Only two numbers were issued, the first in 1850 and the second in 1857. In 1850 Sachs edited also Leopold Zunz's Ha-Palit, an index of valuable Hebrew manuscripts, with biographical notes on some of the authors.[6]Template:R/superscript Of his Ha-Yonah only one number appeared (Berlin, 1851);[2]Template:R/superscript it contains among other things an article by Hayyim Selig Slonimski on the Jewish calendar according to the ancient Talmudists.[7]Template:R/superscript Sachs then undertook to continue the publication of the Template:Ill, editing the eighth and ninth volumes (Berlin, 1854 and 1856).[8]Template:R/superscript

Sachs also researched and uncovered the wrongful attribution of twenty-one philosophical works of Solomon ibn Gabirol to the biblical King Solomon.[9]Template:Rp

Bibliography

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  • Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". Supplement to Ha-Yonah.
  • Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". Pamphlet on the anniversary of Mathilda Günzburg's birth.[7]Template:R/superscript
  • Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". An announcement of the continuation of Ha-Yonah, containing, besides the prospectus, literary essays.[7]Template:R/superscript
  • Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". A rimed prospectus of Ha-Yonah.[7]Template:R/superscript
  • Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". A midrash, attributed to Rabbi Akiva, on the crowns of the letters, edited with an essay on the age of this work and also on the Sefer Shimmusha Rabba and Otiyot de-R. Akiva.[7]Template:R/superscript
  • Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". A catalog (unfinished) of the Günzburg library.[7]Template:R/superscript
  • Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". The poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol revised, punctuated, and commentated by the editor.[7]Template:R/superscript
  • Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". Ibn Gabirol's riddles with solutions and explanations.[7]Template:R/superscript

References

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