Marcus Weissmann-Chajes
Born(1831-01-17)January 17, 1831
Tarnów, Austrian Galicia
DiedApril 30, 1914(1914-04-30) (aged 83)
Vienna, Austria-Hungary[1]
Pen nameMV"Ḥ (מו״ח)
LanguageHebrew
Literary movementHaskalah

Marcus Weissmann-Chajes (Hebrew: מרדכי ווייסמאן־חיות, romanized: Mordekhay Vaysman-Ḥayot; January 17, 1831 – April 30, 1914) also known by the Hebrew acronym MV"Ḥ (מו״ח), was a Galician Jewish writer.

Biography

Marcus Weissmann-Chajes was born in Tarnów in 1830, the son of Yitzḥak Leib.[2] He was destined for a rabbinical career, and began at a young age to receive instruction in the Talmud and in rabbinics. Among his tutors were Israel Katz Rapoport, then av beit din of Tarnów.[3] When only ten years of age he began writing Hebrew poetry, and five years later he wrote his Mappalat ha-mitkashsherim, a metrical composition on the failure of the Polish revolt.[4] Part of this work appeared in the Maggid Mishneh (1872) under the title Aḥarit mered.

In 1872 he founded in Lemberg the Maggid Mishneh, a semimonthly periodical devoted to Jewish history and to Hebrew literature; of this publication, however, only four numbers appeared. In the following year he settled in Vienna, where he edited the thirty-seventh number of Kokheve Yitzḥak [he]. During the years 1874 to 1876 he edited the Wiener Jüdische Zeitung, a Yiddish weekly.

Publications

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Seligsohn, M. (1906). "Weissmann-Chajes, Marcus". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 12. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 499.

  1. ^ "R. Mordekhay Vaysman Ḥayot z"l". Ha-Mitzpeh (in Hebrew). 11 (20). Kraków: 6. May 15, 1914.
  2. ^ Wunder, Meir (1981–1982). Enzyklopediya me'orei Galicia (in Hebrew). Vol. 2. Jerusalem: Ha makhon Le-hantzaḥat Yahadut Galitzya. p. 902.
  3. ^ Sefer zikaron le-sofre Yisraʼel ha-ḥayim itanu ka-yom. Warsaw: Defus R. Meir Yeḥiel Halter. 1889. pp. 43–44.
  4. ^ Katznelson, J. L.; Ginzburg, Baron D., eds. (1910). "Вейсман Хайес, Маркус"  [Weisman Hayes, Marcus]. Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron (in Russian). Vol. 5. St. Petersburg: Brockhaus & Efron. p. 389.
  5. ^ a b Zeitlin, William (1890). "Weismann (-Chajes), Marcus". Bibliotheca hebraica post-Mendelssohniana (in German). Leipzig: K. F. Koehler's Antiquarium. pp. 410–411.
  6. ^ Davidson, Israel (1966) [1907]. "Descriptive Biography of the Parodies from the Beginning of the 19th Century to the Present Day". Parody in Jewish Literature. New York: AMS Press.
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