Menahem Amelander

Dutch-Jewish author and historian

Menahem Mann Ben Solomon ha-Levi Amelander was a Dutch-Jewish author and historian of the 18th century. He died before 1767.[1]

## Life

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His 1743 Old Yiddish chronicle, Sheyris Yisroel (Remnant of Israel) is a continuation of his Yiddish translation of Josippon with a general history of the Jews in the diaspora until 1740.[2][3] [4] He also drew on the history of Jacques Basnage.[5] Max Erik and Israel Zinberg considered it the foremost representative of its genre.[6] It was cited by Abraham Trebitsch with his Qorot ha-'Ittim and Abraham Chaim Braatbard with his Ayn Naye Kornayk.[7] Zinberg called it "the most important work of Old Yiddish historiographical literature".[8]

## References

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1. ^ "Amelander (Amlander), Menahem Mann Ben Solomon Ha-Levi". www.jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
2. ^ Wallet, Bart (2012-01-01). "Links in a Chain: Early Modern Yiddish Historiography in the Northern Netherlands (1743-1812)" (PDF). Universiteit van Amsterdam [thesis, fully internal].
3. ^ "menahem man ben salomo halevi und sein jiddisches geschichtswerk "sche'erit jisrael"". De Gruyter (in German). Retrieved 2023-11-06.
4. ^ Fuks-Mansfeld, R.G. (1981). "Yiddish Historiography in the Time of the Dutch Republic". Studia Rosenthaliana. 15 (1): 9–19. ISSN 0039-3347. JSTOR 41481882.
5. ^ "Hidden Polemic: Josephus's Work in the Historical Writings of Jacques Basnage and Menaḥem Amelander". Josephus in Modern Jewish Culture: 42. 2019.
6. ^ Smith, Mark L. (December 2021). "Two Views of Yiddish Culture in the Netherlands". Studia Rosenthaliana. 47 (2): 117–138. doi:10.5117/SR2021.2.002.SMIT (inactive 31 January 2024).`{{cite journal}}`: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2024 (link)
7. ^ Wallet, Bart (2007). "Ongoing History: The Successor Tradition in Early Modern Jewish Historiography". Studia Rosenthaliana. 40: 183–194. doi:10.2143/SR.40.0.2028843. ISSN 0039-3347. JSTOR 41482510.
8. ^ Zinberg, Israel (1975). Old Yiddish Literature from Its Origins to the Haskalah Period. KTAV Publishing House, Inc. ISBN 978-0-87068-465-4.

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