Monday 26 August 2019

HERMANN LEBERECHT STARCK


HERMANN LEBERECHT STARCK (May 6, 1848-October 5, 1922)
            He was born in Berlin, a German Orientalist and theologian.  Although the leader of the missionary Institutum Judaicum, he spent his whole life fighting against anti-Semitism and assorted calumnies against Jews.  He published: Jüdisches Wörterbuch, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der gegenwärtig in Polen üblichen Ausdrücke (Yiddish dictionary, with particular reference to the terms currently used in Poland) (Leipzig: Hinrichssche Buchh., 1916), 204 pp.  His second work in the field of Jewish studies was
Jüdischdeutsche texte: Lesebuch zur Einführung in Denken, Leben und Sprache der osteuropäischen Juden (Judeo-German text, reader for an introduction to the thinking, life, and language of Eastern European Jews) (Leipzig: Hinrichssche Buchh., 1917), 56 pp.

Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 4.
Berl Cohen


No comments:

Post a Comment