EVEN SHEMUEL (Kaufmann), JUDAH
- EVEN SHEMUEL (Kaufmann), JUDAH
- EVEN SHEMUEL (Kaufmann) , JUDAH
(1886–1976), Israel educator, lexicographer, and writer. Even Shemuel
was born in Balta, Ukraine, and received a yeshivah education. He
studied in various countries and his thesis at Dropsie College,
Philadelphia, "Rabbi Yomtov Lipman Muelhausen…" (1927), contained his
edition of muelhausen 's Sefer ha-Eshkol. From 1913 he
was active in the Zionist Labor movement in Montreal, Canada, and became
the first principal of its teachers training college. As a contributor
to Ha-Toren and the Zukunft and a lecturer on
Jewish philosophy and sociology, he gained a reputation as a spiritual
guide of the movement. He also tried to reconcile the Hebraists with the
Yiddishists.
Even Shemuel settled in Palestine in 1926 at the invitation of the Devir
publishing house to edit, with Ḥ.N. Bialik , I. Efros ,
and B. Silkiner , an English-Hebrew dictionary (1929;
29th and revised repr. 1963). He continued his cultural
activities in the Histadrut and became the first general secretary of
the Friends of the Hebrew University. When the Va'ad Le'ummi
established a cultural division, Even Shemuel was appointed its head,
remaining there until 1947. He received the Israel Prize in Jewish
studies in 1973.
His principal scholarly work is a vocalized edition of Maimonides'
Guide of the Perplexed in Samuel ibn Tibbon's Hebrew
translation (3 vols., 1935–60), with introductions, extensive
commentary, and notes. A one-volume edition of the whole work with a
short introduction appeared in 1946. Even Shemuel also published
Midreshei Ge'ullah (1943, 19542), an anthology of
messianic and apocalyptic literature from the conclusion of the Talmud
to the 13th century. He edited various volumes in fields of
Jewish scholarship.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Kressel, Leksikon, 1 (1965), 14–15; P. Birnbaum, in: Hadoar,
47 (1968), 587–9.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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