DOVID KOYFMAN (DAVID KAUFMANN) (June 7, 1852-July 6, 1899)
He was
born in Koyeteyn (Kojetín), Moravia. He
was a Judaica researcher and the author of dozens of books and hundreds of
essays on religious philosophy, Hebrew literature, cultural history, ethnography,
and the like. He wrote in German,
Hebrew, English, French, and other languages.
He had a tie to Yiddish studies due to his publication of Zikhronot marat glikl hamil (Memoirs of
Mrs. Glikl of Hameln) (Frankfurt-am-Main: Y. Koyfman, 1896), 400 pp. + lxxii
pp., with an introduction on this important work of Old Yiddish
literature. Works by him of Yiddish philological
interest would include: Mekorot lekorot bene
yisroel (Sources for the history of the Jewish people), in Gräber’s Otsar hasifrut (Treasury of
literature), vols. 2 and 3 (Cracow: 1887-1890); Pinkas k”k bamberg (Records of the Jewish community of Bamberg)
(Berlin, 1896-1897), in which he introduces Old Yiddish texts from the records
of Metz, Dusseldorf, Prostějov, and elsewhere; Shod hasevedim bekehilot mehrn beshnat t”g (The pillaging of the
Swedes in the communities of Moravia in the year 1642/1643) (Vienna-Berlin, 1896),
in which he cites Old Yiddish historical poems.
He died in Carlsbad.
Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 3; Getzel Kressel, Leksikon hasifrut haivrit (Handbook of Hebrew literature), vol. 2
(Merḥavya, 1967).
Berl Cohen
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