Avrom Ber Gotlober

Abraham Bear God Lober (also: Abraham Baer God Lober or Abraham Ber God Lober; pseudonyms: Mahalaleel, ABAG, born December 20 1810 in Starakonstantinow, Gouvernemt Volhynia, the son of Cantor Chaim Hakohen, † April 12, 1899 in Białystok ) was a Hebrew and Yiddish poet (seals and satires ), journalist, reconnaissance, translators and Jewish scholars.

Life

After studying the Bible and Talmud, he has married early, but had to because he could not suppress his interest also in secular studies, separate from his strict religious woman. In order to escape forced recruitment into the tsarist army, he fled to Galicia, where he circles the Haskalah joined (where he learned, among other things Josef Perl know ) and his studies continued. He graduated from rabbinical school and was then several years since 1851 Hebrew teacher at various religious schools and led a wandering life full of privation.

Since 1866 he was a lecturer in Talmud at the Rabbinical School at Zhitomir, until it closed its doors in 1873, after which he moved to Dubno and entirely gave his writer ends inclinations. He later founded the Hebrew Journal Haboker Or ( " The Morning Light", appeared from 1876 to 1886, but with greater interruptions ) in which he compared the edited by Perez Smolenskin in Vienna national Jewish-Zionist, religious rather the traditional rite zuneigende, anti - assimilationist and thus occurred anti- Enlightenment translucent monthly Hashachar and the Mendelssohn school and its supposed accomplishments defended against the Hasidic influence in the Jewish communities, against the old school system of the cheder etc. occurred and instead advocated a religious Jewish school unbound as Max Lilienthal was trying to establish with the approval of the Russian government ( during his time as a teacher had AB God Lober also taught according to these specifications, to his disciples were, among others, Abraham Goldfaden and Mendele Moicher Sforim ).

AB God Lober was involved in a religious reform and was more of philosophy and in particular the study of Karäertums inclined whose communities he visited (Odessa and others) and is dealt there with different followers of Karäertums, their customs and beliefs, their manuscripts, rituals, etc. studied. ; the result of this study and reflection he presented in 1865 in an article published in Vilna Hebrew larger work entitled Bikkoreth le Toldoth hakraim ( " Studies on the history of the Karaites ").

His last years were spent AB God Lober, blind and completely withdrawn, in Białystok.

He also wrote a large number of Yiddish folk songs, widely scattered published in magazines and anthologies and a wide variety of very popular and were sung later in the ghettos

Works (selection)

  • Pirche ha Aviv ( Frühlingsblüten. collection of Hebrew poems), Josefow 1835
  • Hanizanim ( Knospen. Collected poems and epigrams ), Vilnius 1850
  • Anaph etz Awoth ( Myrtenkranz. poems about the death of Emperor Nicholas I and the peace reign of Emperor Alexander II ), Vilnius 1858
  • Mimizraim ( Out of Egypt. Translation of the travel descriptions of Ludwig A. Frankl into Hebrew ), Vienna 1862
  • The song of Kiegel ( parody of Schiller's Bell ), Odessa 1863
  • Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism by Moses Mendelssohn, translated into Hebrew by AB God Lober, Zhitomir 1867
  • Toldoth hakkabbalah wehachasiduth ( history of the emergence and spread of Kabbalah and Hasidism ), Zhitomir 1869
  • Nathan hechacham ( translation of Lessing's Nathan the Wise; translation in the meter of the original, including a biography of Lessing ), Vienna 1874
  • Kolrinah wi jschuah ( Historical novel of the life of the Russian Jews ), Vienna 1875
  • The Dektuch or two chupes published 1876 ( anonymously in a night ( The canopy or two weddings in one night ), comedy in three acts, Warsaw, this work, which, his own bitter experiences taking into account, in a satirical manner against the practice of child marriages taught in its closure it was the parents just about the provenance of the suitors, he had already completed in 1838, and now, almost 40 years later to publish, daring )
  • Peri kajiz ( scholia to the last Prophet and hagiographers ), 1876-1879
  • Hagisra wehabinja (AB God Lobers memoirs, published in the journal Haboker Or 1878/1879 )
  • Hisaharu biwne anijim ( pity on the children of the poor ), 1879
  • Sichronoth mime ne'uraj ( autobiography), Warsaw 1880/1881
  • Me'ofel Orot ( Lights in the Dark ), 1881
  • The Gilgul, 1896 ( the transmigration of souls satirical thematizing, again in 1871 published in the so important for the development of Yiddish literature magazine Qol Mewasser )
  • Kol'schire Mahalaleel (God Lobers poems in three parts ), Warsaw 1900
  • Tipheret li Bene Binah ( allegorical drama), no year
  • The main work, however, apply his published in the Jewish Public Library reminders about jargon writer
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