JOSHUA BEN MORDECAI FALK HA-KOHEN
- JOSHUA BEN MORDECAI FALK HA-KOHEN
- JOSHUA BEN MORDECAI FALK HA-KOHEN (1799–1864), rabbi. Joshua
was born in Breść Kujawski in the district of Warsaw. In his youth he
settled in Kurnik (Kornik), Poznania, and was therefore called Joshua of
Kurnik. In c. 1854 he emigrated to the United States, was appointed
rabbi in Newburg, New York, and also acted as an itinerant preacher. His
career in the U.S. is obscure. He subsequently left the rabbinate and
died in Keokuk, Iowa. His Avnei Yehoshuʾa (New
York, 1860), a commentary on Avot, is of special importance
in that it was the first work of rabbinic learning published in the
United States. In the commentary he utilizes talmudic sources and the
works of Maimonides, Judah Halevi, Isaac Arama, and Joseph Albo. In the
introduction he mentions his unpublished works, Binyan
Yehoshuʾa, on religious philosophy, and Ḥomat
Yehoshuʾa, on halakhah.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Lebrecht, in: HB, 4 (1861), 27f.; Fuenn, Keneset, 431; E.
Deinard, Sifrut Yisrael ba-Amerikah, 2 (1913), 1 no. 2; idem,
Kohelet Amerikah, 2 (1926), 5, no. 4; M. Davis, Yahadut
Amerikah be-Hitpatteḥutah (1951), 197.
(Yehoshua Horowitz)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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