Naphtali Wolf Tur

Naphtali Wolf Tur
BornVilna, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire
Died(1885-05-29)29 May 1885
LanguageHebrew
GenrePoetry

Naphtali Wolf Tur (Hebrew: נפתלי זאב טור, romanized: Naftali Ze'ev Tur; died 29 May 1885)[note 1] was a Russian Hebraist of Jewish descent.

Born in Vilna, Tur settled in Warsaw, where he taught Hebrew and several modern languages. He was a talented poet; but, owing to his untimely death, most of his productions remained unpublished, including a collection of verse entitled Benot ha-shir.[2] Those poems which were printed include Ha-yovel, a long poem in honour of Sir Moses Montefiore's centenary, Geveret ha-ḥeshbon, and El ha-ishah.[1] Several of his poems were published in Avrom Ber Gotlober's Ha-boker or.[3]

Partial bibliography

  • Ha-yovel. Warsaw: Isaac Goldman. 1884.
  • "Geveret ha-ḥeshbon". Ha-Asif. 2. Warsaw: Isaac Goldman: 556–558. 1885.
  • "El ha-ishah". Ha-Asif. 2. Warsaw: Isaac Goldman: 558–561. 1885.
  • "Hegionei kayitz". Ha-Asif. 3. Warsaw: Isaac Goldman: 669–672. 1886.
  • "Le-yedidi Hashem... / Ha-meshorer". Ha-Asif. 5. Warsaw: Isaac Goldman: 16. 1889.

Notes

  1. ^ 8 June 1884, according to William Zeitlin.[1]

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Seligsohn, M. (1906). "Tur, Naphtali Wolf". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 12. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 277.

  1. ^ a b Zeitlin, William (1890). "Tur, Naftali Wolf". Bibliotheca hebraica post-Mendelssohniana (in German). Leipzig: K. F. Koehler's Antiquarium. pp. 400–401.
  2. ^ Katznelson, J. L., ed. (1913). "Тур, Нафтали Вольф"  [Tur, Naftali Vol'f]. Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron (in Russian). Vol. 15. St. Petersburg: Brockhaus & Efron. pp. 67–68.
  3. ^  Singer, Isidore; Seligsohn, M. (1906). "Tur, Naphtali Wolf". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 12. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 277.


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