[Ḳinah eulogizing Israel Zamosc].
[קינה להספד של ישראל מזאמשט].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Aryeh Yehudah Leib ben Mordekhai, ha-sofer (Brody, Ukraine).

Contributor:

Karp, Abraham J., former owner.

Abraham J. and Deborah Karp Collection of Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Jews.

History.

Haskalah.

Rabbis.

Eulogies.

Ukraine--Brody (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ).

Ukraine.

Zamosc, Israel ben Moses, Halevi, approximately 1700-1772--Poetry.

Zamosc, Israel ben Moses.

Eulogies--Ukraine--Brody (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ)--18th century.

Rabbis--Ukraine--Brody (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ)--18th century.

Haskalah--Ukraine--18th century.

Jews--Ukraine--Brody (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ)--History--Sources.

Genre:

Sources.

Elegies.

Eulogies (documents)

Acrostics.

Manuscripts, European.

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly in the collection of Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Karp.

Physical Description:

1 leaf : paper ; 230 x 161 (185 x 152) mm

Production:

[Brody], [April 1772]

Language Note:

Hebrew.

Biography/History:

Scribe, poet, preacher, and early maskil (died circa 1780), son of Mordekhai b. Yehoshua of Szczebrzeszyn (author of Milei de-avot; Aryeh Leib likely born in Szczebrzeszyn), descended from a dynasty of Brody scribes (family name was R'Yeshaieś (ר'ישעיש), scribes in Brody and Lemberg); attributed as the anonymous author of Zemir ʻaritsim ṿe-ḥarbot tsurim (printed in Staryi Oleksynets', 1772), a notorious anti-Hasidism polemic.

Summary:

This is a manuscript of a ḳinah (elegy) composed upon the death of Israel ben Moses Zamosc (1700?-April 20, 1772, early maskil, mathematician, while in Berlin teacher to Veitel Heine Ephraim and Moses Mendelssohn, author of Netsaḥ Yiśraʼel and Arubot ha-shamayim) and likely the holograph document used to recite as a eulogy. The ḳinah is an acrostic of 8 stanzas spelling ישראל סגל (with an additional stanza at the top), and each stanza is introduced by a description of the discipline of wisdom Israel Zamosc mastered (grammar, lyricism and poetry, precision and engineering, equations and geometry, astronomy, natural sciences and medicine, and music (דקדוק, ההגיון והמליצה, השיעור וההנדסה, החשבות ותשבורת, מהלך הגלגלים והכוכבים, הטבע והרפואה, הניגון והשיר)). Item mounted on a 19th century paper, with a later note at the top identifying the author and the date of death of Israel Zamosc.

Notes:

Ms. leaf.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Script: Written in an Ashkenazic cursive script with acrostic features written in an Ashkenazic square script; later note at top written in a different hand.

Origin: Written likely in Brody by Aryeh Yehudah Leib ben Mordekhai ha-sofer (the text of the manuscript appears in Joseph Kohn, Otsar ḥokhmah, Schatzkammer der Hebräischen Literatur, Jahrgang III (Lemberg: J.M. Stand, 1865), pages 25-27; Kohn notes that he received the text in a vellum manuscript from a scholar in Berezhany, likely which was copied from this manuscript).

Item housed with a written description by Karp.

Layout: Written in 25 lines in nine stanzas, with each stanza ending with ישראל (for Israel Zamosc).

Cited as:

UPenn Karp BI.9.

OCLC:

1286684238