MOHR, ABRAHAM MENAHEM MENDEL
- MOHR, ABRAHAM MENAHEM MENDEL
- MOHR, ABRAHAM MENAHEM MENDEL (1815–1868), Hebrew scholar.
Born in Lemberg, he was a maskil who wrote in Hebrew and
Yiddish. His fecund literary work commenced in 1834 when he published
Magen ha-Ḥokhmah, in which he defended science and
philosophy. Together with N.I. Fischmann, Jacob Bodek, and Jacob
Mentsch, he issued the two volume Ha-Ro'eh u-Mevakker Sifrei
Meḥaberei Zemannenu (1837, 1839), in which famous scholars were
harshly criticized. The book aroused the anger of his contemporaries.
His publication Yerushalayim, which appeared for three issues
(1844–45), was more moderate. In 1848–49 he published a Yiddish
newspaper, Tsaytung, which at the time was the only Yiddish
newspaper in the world. Mohr wrote about the Rothschilds (Tiferet
Yisrael, 1843), Columbus (1846), and Napoleon III
(Ḥut ha-Meshullash, 1853). His works also included
Mevasseret Ẓiyyon, (1847), a geography of Palestine and its
Jewish inhabitants, and his Purim parodies Kol Bo le-Purim
(1855) and Shulḥan Arukh Even ha-Shetiyyah (1861). He
published editions of Mikveh Yisrael by Manasseh Ben Israel
(1847) and La-Yesharim Tehillah by M.Ḥ. Luzzatto (1859).
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Zeitlin, Bibliotheca, 242–4; Kressel, Leksikon, 2 (1967), 320–2.
(Getzel Kressel)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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