- Abraham Trebitsch
Abraham ben Reuben Trebitsch (born at Trebitsch, Moravia, about 1760; died at
Nikolsburg in the first half of the nineteenth century) was an Austrian-Jewish scholarHe attended the yeshibah of
Löb Fischels at Prague in 1775 ("Ḳorot ha-'Ittim," p. 24a), and then settled in Nikolsburg, where he became secretary to theLandesrabbiner .He was the author of "Ḳorot ha-'Ittim," a history of the European monarchs, including the
emperors of Austria , from 1741 to 1801 (part i., Brünn, 1801; with additions, under the title "Ḳorot Nosafot," up to the year 1830, byJacob Bodek , Lemberg, 1841). It deals especially with the history and literature of the Jews in the Austrian states. Trebitsch's work is a continuation ofMenahem Mann ben Solomon ha-Levi 's "She'erit Yisrael," which traces the history down to the year 1740 [Jew. Encyc. i. 490, s.v. Amelander] .Trebitsch, with
Hirsch Menaḳḳer , was the author of "Ruaḥ Ḥayyim," a story of theexorcising of an evil spirit that possessed a young man (published in Hebrew andYiddish , Nikolsburg, 1785;Frankfurt (Oder) , 1794).References
*Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, p. 527, No. 327;
*Fürst, Bibl. Jud. iii. 442;
*Zedner, Cat. Hebr. Books Brit. Mus. p. 176.
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