Elia Levita
Elia Levita (13 February 1469 – 28 January 1549)[
Life and work
Born at Neustadt near Nuremberg, to a Jewish family of Levitical status, he was the youngest of nine brothers. He preferred to call himself "Ashkenazi", and bore also the nickname Bokher (Hebrew Baḥur), meaning youth or student, which latter he gave as title to his Hebrew grammar.[1]
During his early adulthood, the
By 1514 he was living in
The 1527
Elia Levita died 28 January 1549 in Venice, aged 80 years. His monument in the graveyard of the Jewish community at Venice boasts of him that "he illuminated the darkness of grammar and turned it into light."[1]
In the period which saw the rise of the
He has descendants living today, including former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron, who describes him as "my forefather Elijah Levita who wrote what is thought to have been the first ever Yiddish novel".[6]
Works
- Elia Levita Bachur's Bovo-Buch: A Translation of the Old Yiddish Edition of 1541 with Introduction and Notes by Elia Levita Bachur, translated and notes by Jerry C. Smith, Fenestra Books, 2003, ISBN 1-58736-160-4.
- Helia Levita (das ist: Elijah Levita): שְמוֹתֿ דְבָֿרִים [...] Nomenclatura Hebraica Autore Helia Levita Germano Grammatico, in gratiam omnium tyronum ac studiosorum linguæ sanctę. Isny, published by Paul Fagius, 1542.
- Kaltenstadler, Wilhelm (ed.), Helia Levita: Nomenclatura Hebraica: Wörterbuch Jiddisch-Deutsch-Latein-Hebräisch. [Nomenclatura Herbraica: Yiddish-German-Latin-Hebrew Dictionary], facsimile, Utopia Boulevard U.B.W. Press, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-9809509-6-4.
- Rosenfeld, Moshe N. (ed.): Nomenclatura Hebraica. London 1988, OCLC 233860721.
- Short description in English p. 189. (books.google.com)
- Paris and Vienna (attributed)
- miscellaneous shorter poems
- The Massoreth Ha-Massoreth of Elias Levita, being an exposition of the Massoretic notes on the Hebrew Bible, or the ancient critical apparatus of the Old Testament in Hebrew, with an English translation, and critical and explanatory notes, London, Longmans, 1867[7]
Notes
- ^ a b c One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bacher, William (1911). "Elias Levita". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 272.
- ^ a b c d e [Liptzin, 1972] p.6.
- ^ "the Seforim blog: New Book Censored". Seforim.blogspot.com. 2005-08-31. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
- ^ Heidi Stern, 2010. p. 205
- ^ a b Jewish Encyclopedia article.
- ^ "Video: David Cameron: I feel 'connection' to Jewish people". Telegraph. 2014-03-12. Archived from the original on 2014-03-12. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
- ^ "Massorah Massoreth Massoretic RabbinicHebrewBible.C.D.Ginsburg.1865.1905.4vols.plus3vols". Archive.org. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
References
- Jewish Encyclopedia, 1901-1906
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Joseph Jacobs and Isaac Broydé (1901–1906). "Levita, Elijah". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.- Liptzin, Sol, A History of Yiddish Literature, Jonathan David Publishers, Middle Village, NY, 1972, ISBN 0-8246-0124-6.
- Stern, Heidi: Elia Levitas „Shemot Devarim“ von 1542, in: Lexicographica, 26 (2010), 205–228. doi 10.1515/9783110223231.3.205
External links
- . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. VIII (9th ed.). 1878. p. 133.
- Works by Elia Levita at Post-Reformation Digital Library
- Levita, Elijah (1469–1549) (in German).
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