אבודרהם
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- rdf:type
- Footprint
- Actor
- Mordekhai Adelmann (Owner)
- Date
- unknown/1895
- Copy
- 66-5617-9466
- Language
- Hebrew
- Evidence type
- Reference in another text
- Evidence description
- Quaglia, Notes on Kaufmann B 1
- Notes
Inscription and information from Fabrizio Quaglia: הובא אלי מירושלים ע'י ידידי אדעלמאנן והגיעני ו' חנוכה תרנ''ו לפ''ק כאשר הייתני בבית הורי שליט''א לחוג לאת חג אירוסי אחי שי' בעיר מלודתי קאיעטיין // אני דוד קויפמנן “It [this book] was brought to me from Jerusalem by my friend A…
Inscription and information from Fabrizio Quaglia: הובא אלי מירושלים ע'י ידידי אדעלמאנן והגיעני ו' חנוכה תרנ''ו לפ''ק כאשר הייתני בבית הורי שליט''א לחוג לאת חג אירוסי אחי שי' בעיר מלודתי קאיעטיין // אני דוד קויפמנן “It [this book] was brought to me from Jerusalem by my friend Adelmann, and I arrived on the 6th [day of] Ḥanukkah 656 of the minor reckoning [17 December 1895], when I was at my parents’ house to celebrate the engagement party of my brother [Ignác/Ignaz] – may he live – in my hometown Qaiyaṭein [Kojetín, now in the Czech Republic]. I am Dawid Qoifmann [David Kaufmann]” Adelmann, Mordeḵay: Mordeḵay Adelmann (1847-1922), also known as Moritz Adelmann and Moritz Edelmann, was born in Heydekrug (now Šilutė in Lithuania) to an Orthodox Jewish family. He took an early interest in the Haśkalah movement (the so-called Jewish Enlightenment), which in the 1870s led him to Vienna in search of a broader education. He devoted much of his time to writing and editing articles for the Jewish press. In seeking material for these pieces, he scoured the European libraries looking for little-known Jewish manuscripts to study and expound. At the same time, he founded the Lemaan Zion Society of Frankfurt, a nationalist organization intended to support Jewish charitable institutions in Palestine. Later he lived for a few years in Paris. While he was studying manuscripts of the Vatican Library in 1878, M. Adelmann was commissioned by the Vatican to find ancient material in Iraq and Persia. This was a hard challenge: he was once robbed while travelling on a boat on the Tigris river near Basra. Finally, Adelmann settled in Jerusalem in 1881, working as a teacher in the German-Jewish Orphanage School and as a storekeeper. At the same time, he continued working tirelessly for the Lemaan Zion Society to maintain and extend the Jewish settlement in Palestine, setting up new settlements, establishing hospitals and giving assistance to poor immigrants. He even helped establishing, in 1892, a public library in Jerusalem, namely the Abarbanel Library, the first nucleus of the Jewish National and University Library (nowadays National Library of Israel), when he was Secretary (and then President) of the old Jerusalem Lodge. Adelmann sold sold to David Kaufmann precious Yemenite manuscripts that he had bought from Jews immigrating from Yemen, like on 6 December 1882, a collection of 18th-19th-century Seliḥot i.e., penitential poems and prayers (ms. Kaufmann A 407), and on 2 January 1883, a 17th-century Maḥzor, that is the festival prayer book of the North-African rite (ms. Kaufmann A 410). Both are visible on the website Ktiv (details below), with owner’s note by Kaufmann at the end. For decades Adelmann supplied D. Kaufmann with manuscripts he acquired in and out of Palestine (for instance in Hebron) from yešivot (the Jewish rabbinical academies) as well as from private Jerusalemites, including material discovered in the Jerusalem genizot (a sort of archives usually found in the attic or basement of a synagogue) in 1883 or 1884, and more Yemenite mss. from the collection of Moses Wilhelm Shapira of Jerusalem (1830-1884), a not always reliable antiquities dealer. The Kaufmann collection of Budapest also contains printed volumes formerly sold by Adelmann to Kaufmann, including a copy of the 1489 Lisbon Abudarham (shelf number: Kaufmann B 1). Kaufmann, in his article Die Grabschrift des R. Isak Bar Scheschet, “Monatsschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judenthums” XXXII, 1883, 4, thanked on p. 190 “der Unermüdlichkeit [“indefatigability”] meines Freundes M. Adelmann in Jerusalem”. Sources: ISTVÁN ORMOS, David Kaufmann and his collection, p. 141, in David Kaufmann memorial volume. Papers presented at the David Kaufmann Memorial Conference, November 29, 1999, Budapest, Oriental Collection, Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Edited by Éva Apor, Budapest, Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2002; REBECCA J. W. JEFFERSON, The Cairo Genizah and the Age of Discovery in Egypt. The History and Provenance of a Jewish Archive, London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022, pp. 45-46, 51-53, 106-107, 113, 118, 217 (notes 30-32), 218 (notes 49-51); Ktiv. The International Collection of Digitized Hebrew Manuscripts.- Owner
- Mordekhai Adelmann
- Percent complete
- 90
- Place
- Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
- Evidence location
- Budapest, Hungary
- Title
- אבודרהם
- Verified
- false
- described at
- https://footprints.ctl.columbia.edu/footprint/21682/
- dcterms:date
- ? - 1895
- rdfs:label
- אבודרהם