Mordecai Sultansky

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Mordecai Sultansky was a Crimean Karaite hakham of the nineteenth century.

He was born at Lutsk about 1772. Sultansky was one of the most prominent scholars of the Karaite sect during the nineteenth century. He officiated as hakham of Lutsk (in succession to his father), and later at Eupatoria.

He wrote a Hebrew grammar entitled "Petah Tikvah" (Eupatoria, 1857), and "Sefer Tetib Da'at" (ib. 1858), directed against rabbinical philosophy and Hasidic mysticism, and endeavoring to explain Biblical angelology. He died in 1862.

[edit] Bibliography

• Fürst, Bibl. Jud. iii.396;
• S. Van Straalen, Cat. Hebr. Books Brit. Mus. p. 231, London, 1894

[edit] References

• This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.