HEILPRIN, PHINEHAS MENAHEM
- HEILPRIN, PHINEHAS MENAHEM
- HEILPRIN, PHINEHAS MENAHEM (1801–1863), Hebrew scholar and
anti-Reform polemicist. Born in Lublin, Poland, he moved to Hungary in
1842 and, in 1859, emigrated to the U.S. Heilprin was opposed to reforms
in Judaism and the moderation of his critical views on talmudic
literature stemmed from a loyalty to Jewish tradition. In 1845 he wrote
a sharp polemical work, Teshuvot be-Anshei Aven (signed
S.M.N., the last letters of his names), directed against
samuel holdheim and his school, in which he expressed the view
that Jews have a right to exist as a nation, and not merely as a
religious community. Heilprin's second work Even Boḥan
(1846), signed "Peli," contains a penetrating criticism of
abraham geiger 's Melo Ḥofnayim, and a critical edition
of Profiat duran 's Al Tehi ka-Avotekha. An article on
methods of talmudic textual criticism, "Kevod Ḥakhamim
Yinḥalu," was published posthumously in Bikkurim
(vol. 2, 1865).
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
G. Pollak, Michael Heilprin and his Sons (1912); A. Ginzig,
in: Oẓar ha-Sifrut, 3 (1889–90), 11–12 (fourth pagin.).
(Gedalyah Elkoshi)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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