Joseph Löb Sossnitz | |
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Born | Joseph Judah Löb Sossnitz 17 September 1837 Birzhi, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire |
Died | 2 March 1910 New York City, New York, United States | (aged 72)
Language | Hebrew |
Literary movement | Haskalah |
Joseph Judah Löb Sossnitz ( Yiddish: יוסף יהודה ליב בן יחיאל מיכל זאָסניץ, romanized: Yosef Yehudah Leyb ben Yekhiel Mikhel Zosnitz; 17 September 1837 – 2 March 1910) was a Russian–American Talmudic scholar, philosopher, educator, and scientific writer.
Sossnitz was born into a Hasidic family [1] in Birzhi, Kovno Governorate, in 1837. At the age of ten, he compiled a calendar for the year 5608 (1847–48). At nineteen, he moved to Riga to teach Hebrew. He was granted access to the library of the city's polytechnical school, where he studied German and secular sciences. [2]
In 1875, he received an invitation from Hayyim Selig Slonimski to join him as co-editor of Ha-Tzefirah in Berlin. However, due to his refusal to write against Slonimski's rival Gabriel Judah Lichtenfeld, he was dismissed from this position. In 1888, Sossnitz relocated to Warsaw, assuming the role of editor for the scientific and Kabbalistic sections of Ha-Eshkol . [3] He moved to New York in 1891, where, in 1893, he established a Talmud Torah on 104th street, serving as its principal until 1897. From 1899 onward, he lectured on Jewish ethics at the Educational Alliance. Among his students was Mordecai Kaplan, who credited Sossnitz as contributing to his "intellectual and spiritual development". [4]
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Joseph Löb Sossnitz | |
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Born | Joseph Judah Löb Sossnitz 17 September 1837 Birzhi, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire |
Died | 2 March 1910 New York City, New York, United States | (aged 72)
Language | Hebrew |
Literary movement | Haskalah |
Joseph Judah Löb Sossnitz ( Yiddish: יוסף יהודה ליב בן יחיאל מיכל זאָסניץ, romanized: Yosef Yehudah Leyb ben Yekhiel Mikhel Zosnitz; 17 September 1837 – 2 March 1910) was a Russian–American Talmudic scholar, philosopher, educator, and scientific writer.
Sossnitz was born into a Hasidic family [1] in Birzhi, Kovno Governorate, in 1837. At the age of ten, he compiled a calendar for the year 5608 (1847–48). At nineteen, he moved to Riga to teach Hebrew. He was granted access to the library of the city's polytechnical school, where he studied German and secular sciences. [2]
In 1875, he received an invitation from Hayyim Selig Slonimski to join him as co-editor of Ha-Tzefirah in Berlin. However, due to his refusal to write against Slonimski's rival Gabriel Judah Lichtenfeld, he was dismissed from this position. In 1888, Sossnitz relocated to Warsaw, assuming the role of editor for the scientific and Kabbalistic sections of Ha-Eshkol . [3] He moved to New York in 1891, where, in 1893, he established a Talmud Torah on 104th street, serving as its principal until 1897. From 1899 onward, he lectured on Jewish ethics at the Educational Alliance. Among his students was Mordecai Kaplan, who credited Sossnitz as contributing to his "intellectual and spiritual development". [4]
{{
cite book}}
: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link) A manual on chess based on Alphons von Breda's method.
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cite book}}
: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link)This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Seligsohn, M. (1905). "Sossnitz, Joseph Judah Löb". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 471.
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