Mordecai ben David Strelisker (Hebrew: מרדכי בן־דוד סטרעליסקער; 8 November 1806 – 15 October 1875),[1] also known by the acronym Marvad Sat (מרב״ד ס״ט), was a Romanian Maskilic writer, poet, and ḥazzan. He served as cantor in the synagogue of Mihăileni.
Mordecai Strelisker | |
|---|---|
| Born | 8 November 1806 Brody, Galicia, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria |
| Died | 15 October 1875 (aged 68) Mihăileni, Romania |
| Resting place | Mihăileni Jewish Cemetery[1] |
| Pen name | Marvad Sat |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Literary movement | Haskalah |
Biography
editStrelisker was born in Brody, Galicia, in 1806, the son of David and Feyge Strelisker. His paternal grandfather was from the Galician town of Strelisk.[1] He spent his youth in his native town, where he acquired a knowledge of Hebrew literature under the instruction of Isaac Erter and Nachman Krochmal.[2][3]
Strelisker's most important literary contributions are twelve essays in volumes 8–11 of Bikkure ha-Ittim. He also carried on a literary correspondence with Judah Jeitteles in Kerem Ḥemed (ii. 183).[4] His other published works include Zakat shever, a lamentation on the death of Zalman Margulies; Ta'aniyat yeshurun, an elegy on the death of Emperor Francis I of Austria, sung during a mourning ceremony held in the old Brody synagogue; Zekher 'olam, a biography and an elegy of his father; and Shirah la-kohen (reprinted from Ha-Maggid, 1860), on the occasion of the seventieth birthday of J. S. Rappaport.[5]
He was also an activist of the Alliance Israélite Universelle,[6] and advocated for rationalism in Judaism, modern Jewish education, and the emancipation of Romanian Jewry.[7]
Publications
edit- Zakat shever [A Cry of Destruction]. Vienna. 1829.
- Ta'aniyat yeshurun [Cries of Jeshurun]. Zolkiev. 1835.
- Kos ha-tar'elah [A Cup of Poison]. Zolkiev: Saul Meyerhoffer. 1835.
- Ha-serefah [The Fire]. Zolkiev: Saul Meyerhoffer. 1835.
- Zekher 'olam [Eternal Memory]. Lemberg: Joseph Schnayder. 1849.
- Shirah la-kohen [Poem to a Cohen]. 1860.
- Todah u-berakhah [Thanks and Blessing]. Czernowitz: Rudolf Eckhardt. 1868.
- Shnei ha-me'orot ha-gedolim [The Two Great Lights]. Lemberg: Mikhl Volf. 1870.
References
edit This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Jacobs, Joseph; Ochser, Schulim (1905). "Strelisker, Mordecai ben David". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 568.
- ^ a b c Herșcovici, Lucian-Zeev (1993). "Mordekhay Strelisker: Sofer Ivri mi-Mikhaylen". In David, Shlomo (ed.). Dorot shel yahadut ve-tsiyonut: Dorohoy, Saven, Mikhaylen, Daraban, Hertza, Radautz-Prut [Generations of Judaism and Zionism in Dorohoi, Săveni, Mihăileni, Darabani, Herța, Rădăuți-Prut] (in Hebrew). Vol. 2. Kiryat Bialik: Irgun yotz'e Dorohoi veha-sviva be-Yisra'el. pp. 157–160.
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Jacobs, Joseph; Ochser, Schulim (1905). "Strelisker, Mordecai ben David". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 568.
- ^ Kressel, Getzel (2007). "Strelisker, Marcus". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.
- ^ Steinschneider, Moritz (1852–1860). "Strelisker (Mardochai b. David)". Catalogus Librorum Hebræorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana (in Latin). Berlin: A. Friedlaender. p. 2662.
- ^ Fürst, Julius (1863). Bibliotheca Judaica: Bibliographisches Handbuch der gesammten jüdischen Literatur (in German). Vol. 3. Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann. p. 393.
- ^ Herșcovici, Lucian-Zeev (2018). "The Maskilim of Romania and the Question of Identity: 'The Romanian Israelites'". Annals of the University of Bucharest. Political science series. 1: 5–26.
- ^ Herșcovici, Lucian-Zeev (2015). "Mordekhay ben David Strelisker ('Marvad Sat', 1808–1875): moderate maskil, fighter for the modernization of the Romanian Jews, and for their Emancipation". Studia et Acta Historiae Iudaeorum Romaniae. 12: 101–137.
- ^ Toybish, Aizik (9 November 1875). "Evel yaḥid". Ha-Tsfira (in Hebrew). 2 (43). Warsaw: 343.
- ^ Werber, Baruch, ed. (29 October 1875). "איטצקאני". Ivri Anokhi (in Hebrew). 12 (3): 15.