Menahem Amelander

Dutch-Jewish author and historian

She'erit Yisra'el. Amsterdam : Kosman ben Yosef Barukh, 1770 or 1771.[1]

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

## 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] Maks 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]

## Further reading

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* Menaḥem Man Amelander, “Sheyris Yisroel (Remnant of Israel)” (manuscript, Amsterdam, 1743; first printing 1744). Republished as: Keter kehunah ve-hu sefer Yosipon bi-leshon Ashkenaz, ed. Menahem ben Solomon Amelander, vol. 2 (Fürth: Be-vet uvi-defus Ḥayim ben Tsevi Hirsh, 1767), pp. 92a–96b (ch. 34). The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.
* Fishman, David E., Sheyris Yisroel: An 18th Century Yiddish History of the Jews, retrieved 2024-09-28

## Jewish Encyclopedia Bibliography

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* Goudsmit's edition of Sheyrit Yisrael;
* Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl, No. 6365;
* Fürst, Bibl. Jud. ii. 320;
* Rabbinovicz, Katalog, No. 12 (No. 917);
* Roest, Cat. der Rosenthal'schen Bibl. i. 63, 64;
* Zedner, Cat. Hebr. Books, Brit. Mus. p. 531;
* Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, pp. 218, 562.

## References

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1. ^ "Jews and the Americas". brown.edu. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
2. ^ Wallet, Bart (2012). Links in a Chain: Early Modern Yiddish Historiography in the Northern Netherlands (1743-1812). Universiteit van Amsterdam (Thesis).
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.
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.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "AMELANDER (AMLANDER), MENAHEM MANN BEN SOLOMON HA-LEVI". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.

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