Menahem Amelander

She'erit Yisra'el. Amsterdam : Kosman ben Yosef Barukh, 1770 or 1771.

Menahem Mann Ben Solomon ha-Levi Amelander was a Dutch-Jewish author and historian of the 18th century. He died before 1767. ^[2]

Life

His 1743 Old Yiddish chronicle, Sheyris Yisroel (Remnant of Israel) is a continuation of his Yiddish translation of Josippon with a general history of the Jews in the diaspora until 1740. ^{[3] [4] [5]} He also drew on the history of Jacques Basnage. ^[6] Maks Erik and Israel Zinberg considered it the foremost representative of its genre. ^[7] It was cited by Abraham Trebitsch with his Qorot ha-'Ittim and Abraham Chaim Braatbard with his Ayn Naye Kornayk. ^[8] Zinberg called it "the most important work of Old Yiddish historiographical literature". ^[9]

Further reading

• Menaḥem Man Amelander, “Sheyris Yisroel (Remnant of Israel)” (manuscript, Amsterdam, 1743; first printing 1744). Republished as: Keter kehunah ve-hu sefer Yosipon bi-leshon Ashkenaz, ed. Menahem ben Solomon Amelander, vol. 2 (Fürth: Be-vet uvi-defus Ḥayim ben Tsevi Hirsh, 1767), pp. 92a–96b (ch. 34). The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.
• Fishman, David E., Sheyris Yisroel: An 18th Century Yiddish History of the Jews , retrieved 2024-09-28

Jewish Encyclopedia Bibliography

• Goudsmit's edition of Sheyrit Yisrael;
• Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl, No. 6365;
• Fürst, Bibl. Jud. ii. 320;
• Rabbinovicz, Katalog, No. 12 (No. 917);
• Roest, Cat. der Rosenthal'schen Bibl. i. 63, 64;
• Zedner, Cat. Hebr. Books, Brit. Mus. p. 531;
• Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, pp. 218, 562.

References

1. "Jews and the Americas". brown.edu. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
2. "Amelander (also Amlander), Menahem Mann ben Solomon Ha-Levi | Encyclopedia.com". Encyclopedia Judaica. Retrieved 2025-09-01– via encyclopedia.com.
3. Wallet, Bart (2012). Links in a Chain: Early Modern Yiddish Historiography in the Northern Netherlands (1743-1812). Universiteit van Amsterdam (Thesis).
4. "menahem man ben salomo halevi und sein jiddisches geschichtswerk "sche'erit jisrael"". De Gruyter (in German). Retrieved 2023-11-06.
5. Fuks-Mansfeld, R.G. (1981). "Yiddish Historiography in the Time of the Dutch Republic". Studia Rosenthaliana. 15 (1): 9–19. ISSN   0039-3347. JSTOR   41481882.
6. "Hidden Polemic: Josephus's Work in the Historical Writings of Jacques Basnage and Menaḥem Amelander". Josephus in Modern Jewish Culture: 42. 2019.
7. Smith, Mark L. (December 2021). "Two Views of Yiddish Culture in the Netherlands" . Studia Rosenthaliana. 47 (2): 117–138. doi:10.5117/SR2021.2.002.SMIT.
8. Wallet, Bart (2007). "Ongoing History: The Successor Tradition in Early Modern Jewish Historiography" . Studia Rosenthaliana. 40: 183–194. doi:10.2143/SR.40.0.2028843. ISSN   0039-3347. JSTOR   41482510.
9. Zinberg, Israel (1975). Old Yiddish Literature from Its Origins to the Haskalah Period. KTAV Publishing House, Inc. ISBN   978-0-87068-465-4.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "AMELANDER (AMLANDER), MENAHEM MANN BEN SOLOMON HA-LEVI". The Jewish Encyclopedia . New York: Funk & Wagnalls.