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Isaac Moses Bakst | |
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| Personal life | |
| Born | Isaac Moses Bakst 1811 |
| Died | June 18, 1882 (age 71) |
| Children | Nicolai Bakst |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Judaism |
Isaac Moses Bakst (Yiddish: יצחק משה באקשט; died June 18, 1882) was a lecturer at the Jewish Rabbinical College of Zhitomir. He wrote Sefer ha-Ḥinnuḥ (Zhitomir, 1868), a Hebrew textbook for beginners, adapted for Jewish Russian schools.[1] For many years he owned a Hebrew printing-office in Zhitomir.[2]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rosenthal, Herman (1902). "Bakst, Isaac Moses". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 465.