Jacob Hirsch Sperling

Jacob Hirsch Sperling (Hebrew: יעקב צבי שפרלינג; 1837, Lemberg – December 1899, Lemberg) was a Galician Jewish Maskilic poet and educator.

Sperling was a teacher of religion at the Jewish school and the German gymnasium in Lemberg.[1] He contributed to the Hebrew periodicals Shomer Tzion [he], Kokebe Yiẓḥaḳ, Ha-Ivri, Ha-Shaḥar, and Otzar ha-Sifrut, was co-editor of the Jüdische Presse and the Neuzeit, and was the founder of the societies Aḥavah ve-Haskalah and Shomer Yisrael in Lemberg.[2] In addition to minor writings he has published Hatzalat Melekh (Lemberg, 1854), a poem on the occasion of Emperor Franz Joseph's escape from an assassin; "Ḥamishshah Ketarim" (Lemberg, 1871), containing five poems; "Ḥokhmat Shelomoh" (Lemberg, 1878), a biography, in verse, of S. L. Rapoport; and "Hordos," an epic poem in five cantos (published in Otzar ha-Sifrut, 1887).[3]

References

  1. ^ Sokolow, Nahum (1889). Sefer zikkaron: le-sofrei Yisra'el he-ḥayim itanu ka-yom (in Hebrew). Warsaw: Meir Yeḥiel Halter. pp. 115–116. OCLC 1132616217.
  2. ^  Singer, Isidore; Ochser, Schulim (1905). "Sperling, Jacob Hirsch". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 504.
  3. ^ Zeitlin, William (1890). Bibliotheca hebraica post-Mendelssohniana. Leipzig: K. F. Koehler's Antiquarium. pp. 376–377. ISBN 9783487413150.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Ochser, Schulim (1905). "Sperling, Jacob Hirsch". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 504.


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