- Enoch Zundel ben Joseph
Enoch Zundel ben Joseph (d. 1867) was a Russian
Talmudist and author of the following works:
* A commentary onMidrash Rabbah of the fiveMegillot , in two parts (Wilna andGrodno , 1829-34; 2d ed., Wilna, 1845)
* A twofold commentary onMidrash Tan. (ib. 1833)
* A threefold commentary onSeder 'Olam (ib. 1845)
* Commentary onMidrash Samuel (Stettin, 1860)
* "Mibḥar Mi-Peninim," a commentary on theMidrash Rabbah of thePentateuch (Warsaw, 1870)
* Novellæ on the Haggadah of the Talmud (Wilna, 1883)—these commentaries are, in fact, compilations from other commentaries, especially those of Samuel Jafe Ashkenazi, Hellin, and Bärman Ashkenazi, to which Enoch added novellæ of his own
* "Olat ha-Ḥodesh," prayers for thenew moon , with treatises on fast-days, philanthropy, etc. (ib. 1859)
* A commentary onPesiḳ. R. ;
* "Hoi Ariel," a funeral sermon on the death of R.Löb Katzenellenbogen of Brest (ib. 1838).Enoch Zundel died at
Byelostok in 1867.Jewish Encyclopedia Bibliography
*
Fürst, Bibl. Jud. ii. 107-108, iii. 396;
*Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael, p. 312;
*Eliezer Kohn, Ḳin'at Soferim, p. 107.References
*JewishEncyclopedia
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