Tuesday 5 February 2019

KASPER KALVER


KASPER KALVER
            He was a Christian missionary who published missionary works in Yiddish, as well as a short report on the Yiddish language (1710) which was, however, taken entirely from Johann Christoph Wagenseil.

Sources: B, Borokhov, Di biblyotek fun dem yidishn filolog (The library of the Yiddish philologist), in Pinkes (Warsaw) 3 (1913); Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 3; F. C. B. Avé-Lallemant, Das deutsche Gaunerthum (German thievery), vol. 3 (Leipzig, 1862), pp. 220-21.
Dovid Katz


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