David Samoscz
Born(1789-12-29)29 December 1789
Kempen, Province of Posen
Died29 April 1864(1864-04-29) (aged 74)
Breslau, Prussia
LanguageHebrew
GenreChildren's literature, occasional poetry
Literary movementHaskalah[1]

David ben Joseph Samoscz (Yiddish: דוד בן יוסף זאַמושׁטשׁ; 29 December 1789 – 29 April 1864) was a German author of Hebrew children's literature.

Born in Kempen, Province of Posen, he went at an early age to Breslau, where he was a tutor and private teacher until 1822, when he entered business. Having met with reverses he toward the end of his life devoted himself again to literature. He was a prolific author of stories for the young, written in Hebrew and adapted mainly from the German, and of textbooks of instruction in the Jewish religion.[2]

Work

Samoscz contributed Hebrew poems to periodicals, such as Bikkure ha-Ittim, and to the works of his Breslau friends, M. B. Friedenthal, Jacob Raphael Fürstenthal, and others. His other works include the following:

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Deutsch, Gotthard (1905). "Samoscz, David". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 10. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 684–685.

  1. ^ Pelli, Moshe (2010). Haskalah and Beyond: The Reception of the Hebrew Enlightenment and the Emergence of Haskalah Judaism. University Press of America. p. 195. ISBN 978-0-7618-5204-9.
  2. ^  Singer, Isidore; Deutsch, Gotthard (1905). "Samoscz, David". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 10. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 684–685.
  3. ^ Catalogue of the Hebrew Books in the Library of the British Museum. London: Longman & Co. 1867. p. 669.
  4. ^ Völpel, Annegret (2005). "Religion, German Jewish Children's and Youth Literature and Modernity". In de Maeyer, J.; Ewers, H.-H.; Ghesquière, R.; Manson, M.; Pinsent, P.; Queghebeur, P. (eds.). Religion, Children's Literature, and Modernity in Western Europe, 1750–2000. Leuven University Press. p. 117. ISBN 978-90-5867-497-5.
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