Yoel Dov-Ber Perski

Native name|

יואל דוב־בער פערסקי

Born| 1816 (1816)
Volozhin, Russian Empire
Died| 17 November 1871(1871-11-17) (aged 54–55)
Vilna, Russian Empire
Language| Hebrew
Notable works| Kevod 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 domain: Rosenthal, 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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