Salomon Buber

Salomon Buber (also: Solomon Buber, born February 2, 1827 in Lviv, † December 28, 1906 ) was a Jewish scholar of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. He was the first scientific editors and publishers critical of various midrashim and an active member of the Galician Haskalah. Salomon Buber was the grandfather of Martin Buber.

Life

Solomon Buber was a merchant, the board of various financial institutions and banks ( in recognition of its relevant merits he was awarded the title Handelskammerrat, then Imperial Council ), a wealthy farmer and a leading figure in the administration of the Jewish community as well as many Jewish and non-Jewish, especially charitable organizations of Lviv but also regional associations.

His scientific interest in the field of Jewish history and Jewish literature was already in his early youth - under the influence of reading Kroch times, Rapoport, especially Zunzens - awakes, and his declared aim, in his persecution, he spared no expense or effort was to a maximum number only in manuscript form of traditional haggadischer collections and midrashim make available to the public. The manuscripts and rare editions he did write or edit, and provided them with introductions and notes, which were given in this way the source material of the future and tapped the other hand, literary and intellectual history.

His knowledge gained thereby, found broad support among Jewish scholars, he published in various journals ( Jeshurun ​​, Hashachar, Hameliz, HaMaggid etc. ) as well as in Commemorative and other collective works.

Expenditure ( selection)

Known appearance or emergence time

  • Pesiqta de Raw Kahana, Lyck 1868
  • Midrash lekach tob ( Pesikta sutarta ), a agadischer commentary on the first and second book of Moses R. Tobiah ben Eliezer, Vilnius 1884
  • Midrash Tanchuma, 2 vols, Vilnius 1885
  • Liqqutim mi - Midrash ha - Elle Debarim Zutta, Vienna 1885
  • Collection agadischer commentaries to the Book of Esther, Vilnius 1886
  • Text output Samuel b. R. Nissim Masnut Ma'ajan gannim ... al Sefer Job, Berlin 1889
  • Midrash Tehillim [ Psalms Midrash ], Vilnius 1891 ( translation: A. wishes, Midrash Tehillim, Trier 1892)
  • Midrash Mishlei ( = Midrash to Proverbs, for the most part more comment than Midrash ), Vilnius 1893
  • Critical Edition of the Midrash Samuel, annotated and introduced, Krakow 1893
  • Midrash Aggadah, Vienna 1894
  • Midrash sutta of the five Megillot, Berlin 1894
  • Anshe Shem. Biographies and grave inscriptions of the Rabbi of Lviv from 1500-1890, Krakow 1895
  • Aggadat esters. Agadische essays on the Book of Esther, Krakow 1897
  • Kirja nissgawa. Biographies of rabbis of Zolkiew, in: Ha'eschkol 1898 ff
  • Midrash ECHA Rabbati. Collection agadischer interpretations of Lamentations ( Lamentations Rabbah ), Vilnius 1899
  • Yalkut Machiri ... to the 150 psalms, Berdyczew 1899
  • Sechel Tob. Commentary written for the first and second Book of Moses by Rabbi Menachem ben Solomon ..., Berlin 1900-1902
  • Aggadat Bereshit, Krakow 1903
  • Yerushalayim ha - benuja, Jerusalem 1906 (Collection of - literargeschichtlich very problematic - citations of medieval authors from no longer existing parts - Qodashim and Toharot -. Pal of the Talmud )

Works without year or not determined

  • Rashi Siddur (ed.)
  • Sefer Howrah (ed.)
  • Zedekiah Harofe, Schibbole haleket (ed.)

Literature / Sources (Selection)

  • M. Pure, Dor wechachamaw, Krakow 1890
  • Jewish Encyclopedia, 1901 ff (Vol. III. )
  • Jewrejskaja Encyklopedia, Petersburg 1906 ff (Vol. V. )
  • Wininger 1925 ff (Vol. I. )
  • Isaac Markon, articles Solomon Buber, in: Jewish Encyclopedia, Berlin 1927 (Vol. I)
  • Encyclopedia of Judaism, etc. Gütersloh 1971

Weblink

  • Biography in the Jewish Encyclopedia (English )
  • Person (Judaism )
  • Born in 1827
  • Died in 1906
  • Man
  • Martin Buber
  • Person (Lviv )
  • Private scholar
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