Daniel Neufeld | |
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Born | 1814 Praszka, Kalisz Governorate, Kingdom of Poland |
Died | October 15, 1874 Warsaw, Warsaw Governorate, Kingdom of Poland | (aged 59–60)
Resting place | Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery (r. 41, n. 3) [1] |
Language | Polish and Hebrew |
Children | Bronisława Neufeld |
Signature | |
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Daniel Neufeld (1814 – 15 October 1874) was a Polish-born Jewish author, poet, and educator.
Daniel Neufeld was born to a Jewish family in Praszka, where he received a traditional cheder education. At the age of 13 he enrolled in a provincial grammar school run by the Piarist Fathers in Wieluń, but did not graduate, possibly because of his involvement in the November Uprising. [2] Neufeld opened a Jewish boys' school in 1838, with a curriculum that included the exact sciences, foreign language, and principles of progressive Judaism. [3] Neufeld moved to Chenstokhov in 1840, establishing there a private boarding school for Jewish boys. [4]
Neufeld settled in Warsaw in 1861, where worked as an editor of Samuel Orgelbrand's Encyklopedia powszechna (until 1868) and as a teacher in Jewish government schools. [3] [4] There he published a work on the Great Sanhedrin of 1806 under the title Wielki Sanhedryn Paryski w Roku 1806. On 5 July 1861, Neufeld commenced the publication in Polish of a Jewish weekly newspaper entitled Jutrzenka ( Hebrew: Ayelet ha-Shaḥar), which sought to promote among Jews the Polish language and way of life. [5] The periodical was closed during the January Uprising on 23 October 1863 and he was exiled to Siberia. [6]
Upon returning to Warsaw two years later, the tsarist authorities forbade Neufeld from teaching or printing in the press. He instead dedicated himself to promoting progressive Judaism and assimilation. [3] [7] He published a Polish translation of the books of Genesis and Exodus, with a commentary (1863); a pamphlet on the establishment of a Jewish consistory in Poland entitled Urzadzenie Konsystorza Zydowskiego w Polsce; a gnomology of the fathers of the Synagogue; and Polish translations of the siddur and the Haggadah (1865). [8]
Towards the end of his life Neufeld settled in Piotrków, where he served as the honorary director of a Jewish hospital. [4] He died in Warsaw in October 1874.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain: Rosenthal, Herman; Rosenthal, Max (1905).
"Neufeld, Daniel". In
Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.).
The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 235–236.
Daniel Neufeld | |
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Born | 1814 Praszka, Kalisz Governorate, Kingdom of Poland |
Died | October 15, 1874 Warsaw, Warsaw Governorate, Kingdom of Poland | (aged 59–60)
Resting place | Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery (r. 41, n. 3) [1] |
Language | Polish and Hebrew |
Children | Bronisława Neufeld |
Signature | |
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Daniel Neufeld (1814 – 15 October 1874) was a Polish-born Jewish author, poet, and educator.
Daniel Neufeld was born to a Jewish family in Praszka, where he received a traditional cheder education. At the age of 13 he enrolled in a provincial grammar school run by the Piarist Fathers in Wieluń, but did not graduate, possibly because of his involvement in the November Uprising. [2] Neufeld opened a Jewish boys' school in 1838, with a curriculum that included the exact sciences, foreign language, and principles of progressive Judaism. [3] Neufeld moved to Chenstokhov in 1840, establishing there a private boarding school for Jewish boys. [4]
Neufeld settled in Warsaw in 1861, where worked as an editor of Samuel Orgelbrand's Encyklopedia powszechna (until 1868) and as a teacher in Jewish government schools. [3] [4] There he published a work on the Great Sanhedrin of 1806 under the title Wielki Sanhedryn Paryski w Roku 1806. On 5 July 1861, Neufeld commenced the publication in Polish of a Jewish weekly newspaper entitled Jutrzenka ( Hebrew: Ayelet ha-Shaḥar), which sought to promote among Jews the Polish language and way of life. [5] The periodical was closed during the January Uprising on 23 October 1863 and he was exiled to Siberia. [6]
Upon returning to Warsaw two years later, the tsarist authorities forbade Neufeld from teaching or printing in the press. He instead dedicated himself to promoting progressive Judaism and assimilation. [3] [7] He published a Polish translation of the books of Genesis and Exodus, with a commentary (1863); a pamphlet on the establishment of a Jewish consistory in Poland entitled Urzadzenie Konsystorza Zydowskiego w Polsce; a gnomology of the fathers of the Synagogue; and Polish translations of the siddur and the Haggadah (1865). [8]
Towards the end of his life Neufeld settled in Piotrków, where he served as the honorary director of a Jewish hospital. [4] He died in Warsaw in October 1874.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain: Rosenthal, Herman; Rosenthal, Max (1905).
"Neufeld, Daniel". In
Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.).
The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 235–236.