Wolf Pascheles
Wolf Pascheles (born May 11, 1814 in Prague ; died November 22, 1857 there ) was an Austrian Jewish bookseller, publisher and writer.
In Prague he ran a Hebrew bookstore, for which he was licensed to sell books in 1837. He was the owner of the Pascheles publishing house.
Sippurim
Pascheles was the editor of the Sippurim Gallery, a collection of Jewish sagas, fairy tales and stories as a contribution to ethnology. By several Israelite scholars. From volume 2 the title was Sippurim, a collection of Jewish folk tales, stories, myths, chronicles, memorabilia and biographies of famous Jews from all centuries, especially the Middle Ages, edited by Wolf Pascheles with the help of famous writers .
- Prague [Praha] 1847–1856, by Wolf ed. 4 volumes:
- 1847, 224 pp.
- Second collection. 1853, 252 pp.
- Third collection. 1854, IV, 362 pp.
- Fourth collection. 1856, IV, 362 pp.
- a last volume was published in 1864 by his son Jakob Wolf Pascheles (in "2 Abtheilungen", 192 and 328 pages)
The spelling was occasionally "Sipurim". Pascheles also published several volumes in Yiddish with Hebrew script. The German Digital Library lists a total of 14 items in German and Yiddish (2019), as there were several later editions in both languages, and also a “3. Collection, 2nd division ”(same volume 3, 2).
In 1976, Olms Verlag produced a reprint of the German edition in two volumes. Recently reprints have been published in India.
Other works
- Life and work of the famous Israeli banker Salomon Heine from Hamburg, his great will and funeral. Necrology of the imperial [ied] Viennese wholesaler Hermann Todesco. Legacy of the learned Portuguese Israelite Thomas de Pinta. Collected from the most reliable sources by Wolf Pascheles. Prague 1845, 20 pp.
- Brief instructions on how to read Bohemian along with some corresponding examples of exercises, prayers, stories and fables for young people. Pascheles, Prague 1847, 12 pp.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Pascheles, Wolf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 21st part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1870, p. 317 f. ( Digitized version ).
- To Sippurim
- Johannes Sabel: The birth of literature from the Aggada : Formations of a German-Jewish literary paradigm. (Series of scientific papers by the Leo Baeck Institute ) p. 198ff.
- Gabriele von Glasenapp : Popularity Concepts of Jewish Folklore. Prague fairy tales, sagas and legends in the Sippurim Collection. In: Christine Haug , Franziska Mayer, Madleen Podewski (eds.): Popular Judentum. Media, debates, reading material. Series: Conditio Judaica. Studies and sources on German-Jewish literary and cultural history, 76. Max Niemeyer, Tübingen 2009, pp. 19–45
Web links
- Works by and about Wolf Pascheles in the German Digital Library
- Wolf Pascheles at the "Archives for the History of Sociology in Austria"
- names as authors in "Sippurim": Georg Leopold Weisel , J. Rosenauer, Salomon Kohn , Max Letteris , Wolf Meier, Ludwig Kapper, Gutmann Klemperer, Theodor Budeus, Wilhelm Wolfner, Daniel Ehrmann, Moritz Duschak, Adolf Hlawatsch, Markus Hain, Michael Klapp , Josef Schwarz, Simon Deutsch , Sigmund Singer, Isaak Markus Jost , Moritz Popper, Marcus Jastrow , Moritz Stößel.
notes
- ↑ an alleged “6. Volume ”, Prague 1896, is noted in a single place in the secondary literature: Lexicon of German-Jewish authors:“ Kest-Kulk ”, p. 405. It is an error.
- ↑ There are reluctant double consonants in Hebrew letters. Meaning in German: "oddities"
- ↑ The division only applies to a 2nd edition.
- ↑ Another source names Moritz Steinschneider , Samuel L. Rapoport, Ludwig Weisel as authors . Pestle: The Rabbi's Curse. In vol. 3
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pascheles, wolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian Jewish bookseller, publisher and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1814 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 22, 1857 |
| Place of death | Prague |