BONDY, FILIP

BONDY, FILIP (1830–1907), rabbi in Czechoslovakia; the first to preach in the Czech language. A pupil of S.J. Rapoport and aaron kornfeld , he graduated from Prague University and taught in České-Budějovice from 1857 to 1859. He officiated as rabbi in kasejovice from 1859 to 1868 and in Brandýs nad Labem from 1868 to 1876. In 1886 he was appointed preacher at the Or Tamid Synagogue of the Czech-Jewish movement in Prague. His sermons Hlas Jakubův ("The Voice of Jacob," 1886) and part of a Czech translation of Genesis, Učení Mojžíšovo ("Teachings of Moses," 1902), were published. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Vyskočil, in: Judaica Bohemiae, 3 no. 1 (1967), 42 (Ger.); Fischer, in: Kalendář česko-židovský, 11 (1891/92), 59f.; Věstnik židovske obcé náboženské, 9 no. 24 (1947), 145.