Isidore Goldblum

Isidore Goldblum
Born	Israel Isser Goldblum (1863-06-26)26 June 1863 Neishtot Shaki, Prussia
Died	2 March 1925(1925-03-02) (aged 61) Antwerp, Belgium
Pen name	Peraḥ Zahav, Yafaz
Language	Hebrew

Isidore Israel Goldblum (Hebrew: ישראל איסר גולדבלום, Israel Isser Goldblum; 26 June 1863 – 2 March 1925), also known by the pen names Peraḥ Zahav (Hebrew: פרח זהב) and Yafaz (Hebrew: יאפ״ז), was a Hebrew writer and bibliographer.

Biography

Isidore Israel Goldblum was born to a Jewish family in the town of Neishtot Shaki, where he received a traditional religious education. He studied at the yeshivot of Eyshishok, Volozhin, and Pressburg, and later studied Jewish law under Dr. Ze'ev Feilchenfeld in Poyzn.[1]

He devoted himself to the study and publication of Hebrew manuscripts in Berlin, Paris, London, Oxford, and Rome, publishing his research mainly in the periodical Ha-Maggid. In 1891 he wrote Vie et Œuvres de rabbi Elia Bahur le Grammairien, a short biography of Elye Bokher.[2] That same year he published Ma'amar Bikkoret Sefarim, and released his Mi-Ginzei Yisrael be-Paris in 1894. He corresponded with the leading Jewish scholars of his time and published a collection of these letters (Kevutzat Mikhtavim, 1895).[3]

External links

• Works of Isidore Goldblum at the Online Books Page

References

1. Sokolow, Nahum (1889). Sefer zikaron le-sofrei Israel ha-ḥayim itanu ka-yom [Memoir Book of Contemporary Jewish Writers]. Warsaw. pp. 17–18.
2. Rosenzweig, Claudia (2016). Bovo d'Antona by Elye Bokher: A Yiddish Romance. Leiden: Brill. p. 2. doi:10.1163/9789004306851_002. ISBN 978-90-04-30685-1. OCLC 929855816.
3. Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred, eds. (2007). "Goldblum, Israel Isser". Encyclopaedia Judaica. Vol. 7 (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. p. 697. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.