Philipp Johann Bleibtreu

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Philipp Johann Bleibtreu (born at Frankfort-on-the-Main in the middle of the seventeenth century; died there in 1702) was a Jewish convert to Christianity.

He published a German work entitled Meïr Naor (The Enlightened Meïr, from his Jewish name, Meïr), Frankfort, 1787, giving an account of his conversion, notices on the Jewish festivals, and on some Jewish prayers.

[edit] References

• Wolf, Bibl. Hebr. iii. No. 1834;
• Julius Fürst, Bibliotheca Judaica i. 120.

[edit] External link

• Jewish Encyclopedia article

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