Enoch Zundel ben Joseph
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Enoch Zundel ben Joseph (d. 1867) was a Russian Talmudist and author of the following works:
- A commentary on Midrash Rabbah of the five Megillot, in two parts (Wilna and Grodno, 1829-34; 2d ed., Wilna, 1845)
- A twofold commentary on Midrash Tan. (ib. 1833)
- A threefold commentary on Seder 'Olam (ib. 1845)
- Commentary on Midrash Samuel (Stettin, 1860)
- Mibḥar Mi-Peninim, a commentary on the Midrash Rabbah of the Pentateuch (Warsaw, 1870)
- Novellæ on the Haggadah of the Talmud (Wilna, 1883)—these commentaries are, in fact, compilations from other commentaries, especially those of Samuel Jafe Ashkenazi, Hellin, and Bärman Ashkenazi, to which Enoch added novellæ of his own
- Olat ha-Ḥodesh, prayers for the new moon, with treatises on fast-days, philanthropy, etc. (ib. 1859)
- A commentary on Pesiḳ. R.;
- Hoi Ariel, a funeral sermon on the death of R. Löb Katzenellenbogen of Brest (ib. 1838).
Enoch Zundel died at Byelostok in 1867.
[edit] Jewish Encyclopedia Bibliography
- Fürst, Bibl. Jud. ii. 107-108, iii. 396;
- Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael, p. 312;
- Eliezer Kohn, Ḳin'at Soferim, p. 107.
[edit] References
- This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.
