Tuesday, 8 March 2016

FAYVISH SEGAL HURVITS

FAYVISH SEGAL HURVITS
            He was a follower of the Jewish Enlightenment from Poland, who later lived in The Hague, Holland, and was a teacher there for the wealthy family De Lima.  In 1791 his Yiddish-language mathematics textbook appeared in Amsterdam: Onfangs grinde der aritmatik tsum gebroykh der yugnd bay yidishn natsyon (Beginning foundation for arithmetic for use by youth of the Jewish nation) (84 pp.).

Sources: Y. Shatski, “Di letste shprotsungen fun der yidisher shprakh un literatur in holand” (The last sprouts of the Yiddish language and literature in Holland), Yivo-bleter (Vilna) 10.3-5 (October-December 1936), p. 236.


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