Yoel Dov-Ber Perski

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Yoel Dov-Ber Perski
Native name
יואל דוב־בער פערסקי
Born1816 (1816)
Volozhin, Russian Empire
Died17 November 1871(1871-11-17) (aged 54–55)
Vilna, Russian Empire
LanguageHebrew
Notable worksKevod Melakhim (1851–53)
Ḥayyei Asaf (1858)

Yoel Dov-Ber Perski (Hebrew: יואל דוב־בער בן מאיר הכהן פערסקי; 1816 – 17 November 1871), also known as Yoel Ber Kohen (Hebrew: יואל בער כהן), was a Hebrew writer and translator.

His publications include Kevod Melakhim (Königsberg and Vilna, 1851–53), a translation of François Fénelon's Les aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse, and Ḥayyei Asaf (Warsaw, 1858), a translation of Aesop's Fables, along with a biography of their author.[1] He also wrote Sefer Neveh Tehilah (1846), a Passover Haggadah with commentary;[2] Heikhal Ra'anan and Shemen Ra'anan (Vilna, 1863), commentaries on the Yalkut Shimoni;[3] and Battei Kehunnah, a commentary on Bereshit Rabba and Shemot Rabba.[4]

Partial bibliography

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  • Sefer neṿeh tehilah (PDF) (in Hebrew). Vilna: Menaḥem Mann & Simḥah Zimel. 1846.
  • Kevod melakhim (in Hebrew). Vol. 1. Königsberg: A. Zamter. 1851.
  • Kevod melakhim (in Hebrew). Vol. 2. Vilna: Y. R. Romm. 1853.
  • Yalkut Shimʻoni: ʻim beʼur Zayit raʻanan (in Hebrew). Zensburg: M. Y. Italyener. 1856.
  • Ḥaye Asaf: haʻtaḳah le-toʻelet tseʻire bene ʻamenu (in Hebrew). Warsaw: Y. Lebensohn. 1858.
  • Sefer Bate kehunah: ve-huʼ beʼur maspik ʻal ha-Midrash Rabah (in Hebrew). Vilna: A. Y. & Sh. D. Dvorzets. 1871.

References

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainRosenthal, Herman; Schlössinger, Max (1904). "Kohn, Joel Beer". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 534.

  1. ^ Zeitlin, William (1890). "Kohn, Joël Beer (aus Woloshin)". Bibliotheca hebraica post-Mendelssohniana (in German). Leipzig: K. F. Koehler's Antiquarium. p. 177.
  2. ^ Benjacob, Isaac (1880). Otsar ha-sefarim: sefer ʻarukh li-tekhunat sifre Yisraʼel nidpasim (in Hebrew). Vilna: Defus ha-almanah veha-aḥim Romm. p. 127, 186, 236.
  3. ^  "Кон, Иоель Бер" . Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906.
  4. ^ Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred, eds. (2007). "Perski, Joel Dov Baer". Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.

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