Between Hirsch Koidanower
Zwi Hirsch Koidanower (born 1655 in Wilna ; died 1712 ) was a rabbi in Frankfurt am Main ; his work Kaw ha-Jaschar (moral book, Hebrew and Yiddish) is well known.
Life
Zwi Hirsch Koidanover was born in Wilna in 1655 as the son of Rabbi Aaron Samuel Koidanower. He grew up in Kurów . In 1658 he went with his father to Nikolsburg , then to Fürth and in 1667 Frankfurt am Main. In the prefaces to his father's book Birhat Shemuel and in his own main work Kaw ha-Jaschar , he described the sufferings of his family during the Cossack uprising under Bohdan Khmelnyzkyj and the Second Northern War (invasion of Sweden). He also described how he and his son were harassed in Slutsk when they were both imprisoned and tortured on false charges.
Zwi Hirsch Koidanower lived in Wilna for a long time, and in 1696 he finally returned to Frankfurt.
plant
Koidanower's most famous book Kaw ha-Jaschar (1705) was written on the basis of Yesod Yosef of his teacher Yosef ben Yitschak, the Rabbi of Dubno, which circulated as a manuscript for a long time until it was printed in 1785.
The book refers to the tradition that was developed further under the influence of Kabbalah . It contains decisive social criticism and draws attention to the plight of the community.
literature
- Philo-Lexicon. Handbook of Jewish Knowledge . 3rd edition, Berlin 1936, col. 389.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koidanower, Zwi Hirsch |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Rabbi in Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1655 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vilna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1712 |