GOLDBERG, BAER (Dov) BEN ALEXANDER
- GOLDBERG, BAER (Dov) BEN ALEXANDER
- GOLDBERG, BAER (Dov) BEN ALEXANDER
(known by his acronym Bag; 1800–1884), Polish scholar.
Goldberg was born in Chlodna, near Lomza, Poland, and was orphaned at an
early age. He studied Torah in dire poverty, but earned a reputation as
a prodigy. Having tried his hand at business and
teaching, in 1830 Goldberg became a private
tutor for the family of the wealthy and learned Gershon Litinski in one
of the villages of Suwalki district. When after some time the entire
Litinski family converted to Christianity, he was slandered as having
influenced them.
In 1843 he went to Berlin, where he was favorably received by the
maskilim. However, lacking a formal education, he could not
find employment there, and in 1847 went to England, where he managed
with great difficulty to earn a living copying and publishing Hebrew
manuscripts from the Oxford libraries. In 1853 he settled in Paris,
earning his living there by copying and publishing Hebrew and Arabic
manuscripts from the National Library. Altogether, Goldberg published 17
books and pamphlets and hundreds of articles in Hebrew periodicals,
writing mainly under the name "Divrei Bag" ("Words of Bag") and "Gam
Elleh Divrei Bag" ("These also are the words of Bag"). His writings
exemplified all the virtues and weaknesses of one who is self-taught:
diligence and an abundance of detail but written in ornate language and
lacking organization.
Goldberg's main contribution to scholarship was the editing of such
medieval works as Ḥefes Matmonim (1845), a collection of
medieval texts; Isaac Israeli's Yesod Olam (1848); Ibn
Janaḥ's Sefer ha-Rikmah in Judah ibn Tibbon's translation
(1857); Iggeret Sherira Ga'on (1873); Risalat R. Judah
b. Koraish (1867); and Abraham b. Moses b. Maimon's Birkat
Avraham (1860, repr. 1960).
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
I.I. Goldbloom, in: Oẓar ha-Sifrut, 4 (1892), 542–51; B.
Wachstein, Hebraeische Publizistik in Wien (1930), 71 (incl.
bibl.); Kressel, Leksikon, 1 (1965), 412–3.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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