Mardochée Venture ( Hebrew: מרדכי ונטורה, romanized: Mordekhai Ventura; c. 1730 – 12 March 1789) was a French Judaic scholar and translator. He served as secretary and Hebrew interpreter at the Library of King Louis XVI (now the Bibliothèque nationale de France). [1]
In collaboration with Isaïe Vidal (1713–1771), Venture composed the Seder ha-Kontres (Avignon, 1765), a collection of liturgical chants for the use of the Jews of the county of Venaissin. [2] This compilation includes a piyyut composed by Venture, partly in Hebrew and partly in Provençal, [3] which was translated into French by Ernest Sabatier in his Chansons hébraïco-provençales des juifs comtadins (Nîmes, 1874) and by Pedro II of Brazil, in his Poésies hébraïco-provençales du rituel israélite comtadin (Avignon, 1891). [4] [5] Venture's translations of prayer books were republished through the 19th century. [2]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain: Singer, Isidore; Kahn, S. (1906).
"Venture, Mardochée". In
Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.).
The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 12. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 417.
Mardochée Venture ( Hebrew: מרדכי ונטורה, romanized: Mordekhai Ventura; c. 1730 – 12 March 1789) was a French Judaic scholar and translator. He served as secretary and Hebrew interpreter at the Library of King Louis XVI (now the Bibliothèque nationale de France). [1]
In collaboration with Isaïe Vidal (1713–1771), Venture composed the Seder ha-Kontres (Avignon, 1765), a collection of liturgical chants for the use of the Jews of the county of Venaissin. [2] This compilation includes a piyyut composed by Venture, partly in Hebrew and partly in Provençal, [3] which was translated into French by Ernest Sabatier in his Chansons hébraïco-provençales des juifs comtadins (Nîmes, 1874) and by Pedro II of Brazil, in his Poésies hébraïco-provençales du rituel israélite comtadin (Avignon, 1891). [4] [5] Venture's translations of prayer books were republished through the 19th century. [2]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain: Singer, Isidore; Kahn, S. (1906).
"Venture, Mardochée". In
Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.).
The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 12. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 417.