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Moses Hirsch Enser

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Moses Hirsch Enser
Born1804 (1804)
Lwów, Galicia
Died15 February 1871(1871-02-15) (aged 66–67)
Lwów, Galicia
LanguageHebrew
Literary movementHaskalah

Moses Hirsch Enser (Hebrew: משה צבי ענסר, romanizedMosheh Tzvi Enser; 1804 – 15 February 1871)[1] was a Galician Maskilic poet and grammarian.

From 1845, he published poetry in Max Emanuel Stern's Hebrew periodical Kokhve Yitzḥak [Wikidata],[2] and in 1854, released Ha-Matseref; ve-hu ha-ḥelek ha-rishon mi-sefer Masaʼat Mosheh ('The Purified; or Moses's Gift'),[3] a grammar book on the past tense.[4] He left in manuscript the books Igrot el Assaf ('Letters to Assaf', on the Hebrew language), Ha-noten zemirot ('The Giver of Tunes', on discernment), an interpretation of Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera's psychological treatise Sefer ha-nefesh ('Book of the Soul'), and a volume of poetry entitled Zera kodesh ('Seed of Holiness').[2][4]

Publications

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  • Ha-Matseref; ve-hu ha-ḥelek ha-rishon mi-sefer Masaʼat Mosheh. Lemberg: Gedruckt bei E. Winiarz. 1854.

References

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  1. ^ Zeitlin, William (1890). "Enssir, Moses Hirsch". Bibliotheca hebraica post-Mendelssohniana (in German). Leipzig: K. F. Koehler's Antiquarium. p. 78.
  2. ^ a b Gelber, M. (1962). "The History of the Jews of Stryj". In Kudish, N. (ed.). Sefer Stryj [Book of Stryj]. Tel Aviv: Former Residents of Stryj in Israel. p. 33. Retrieved 25 September 2021 – via JewishGen.
  3. ^  Gottheil, Richard; Bacher, Wilhelm (1904). "Grammar, Hebrew". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 79.
  4. ^ a b Gelber, N. M. (1956). "History of the Jews of Lwow". In Gelber, N. M. (ed.). Encyclopedia Shel Galuyot: Lwow [Encyclopædia of the Jewish Diaspora: Lwow]. Translated by Ecker, Myra Yael. Jerusalem: Encyclopædia of the Jewish Diaspora. p. 367. Retrieved 25 September 2021 – via JewishGen.