MORTKHE-YITSKHOK
EDELMAN (b. ca. 1860)
He was born in Raseyn (Raseiniai), Lithuania. He was the author of Pitgame hatalmud (Saying from the Talmud) (Lomzhe: H. Y. Tsitrin,
1912), 156 pp., including a Yiddish translation in verse. The author, a purely Hebrew writer, notes in
the preface that Yiddish was then necessary as a means against assimilation. He was agitating for Yiddish, because one
could not introduce Hebrew-Aramaic as a language of daily use for the
people. Around 1905 he moved to
Bialystok, where he published a dozen religious works in Hebrew. He was still living in 1937. In his book Ḥakham vesar
(Sage and prince) (Warsaw, 1896), 68 pp., there is included a full biography of
his father Simkhe-Ruvn (b. 1821 in Raseinai, d. 1893 in Warsaw), a well-known
Hebrew scholar in his day, known under the literary name “Sar haadulami.”
Berl
Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun
yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York,
1986), col. 548.
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