Bella bead stapler
Bella asked R. Jakob Perlhefter (* around 1650 in Prague ; † September 9, 1709 there ) was a Jewish writer, professional letter writer and music teacher. As a reminder of the death of their seven children, the couple wrote the work Beer Sheva , the foreword of which Bella wrote. She corresponded both with Beer Perlhefter , her husband, and with the Christian polymath Johann Christoph Wagenseil in Hebrew, the learned language of Judaism.
literature
- Nathanael Riemer: Between Tradition and Heresy. 'Beer Sheva' - an encyclopedia of Jewish knowledge of the early modern period. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2010, pp. 12–66.
- Elisheva Carlebach: Bella bead stapler . In: Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia . March 1, 2009. Jewish Women's Archive.
- Rachel L Greenblatt: ' My Happiness Overturned'. Mourning, Memory and a Woman's Writing in Book of Seven Springs , Lecture on the Early Modern Workshop. Volume 8: Egodocuments: Revelation of the Self in the Early Modern Period, 2011, University of Texas at Austin, August 2123.
- Nathanael Riemer; Sigrid Senkbeil (eds.): ´Beer Sheva` by Beer and Bella Perlhefter . An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Yiddish Encyclopedia. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz: 2011, pp. X-XVII.
- Elisheva Carlebach: The Letters of Bella Perlhefter , Lecture on the Early Modern Workshop. Volume 1: Early Modern Jewries, 2004, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.
- Nathanael Riemer: On the impermanence of human happiness. A midrash on Kohelet 1,5 from the manuscript "Beer Sheva" by R. Beer and Bella Perlhefter. In: Jüdische Zeitung, (February 2014), No. 96, p. 17.
- Nathanael Riemer: Infant death and grief coping. How Bella Perlhefter tried to process the strokes of fate in her life. In: Jüdische Zeitung, (March 2014), No. 97, p. 18.
Web links
- Literature by and about Bella Perlhefter in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bead stapler, Bella |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bella asked R. Jakob Perlhefter (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Jewish writer, professional letter writer and music teacher |
DATE OF BIRTH | around 1650 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
DATE OF DEATH | September 9, 1709 |
Place of death | Prague |