Moses Samuel Zuckermandl

Rabbi Moses Samuel Zuckermandl, also Zuckermandel (24 April 1836, Uherský Brod, Moravia – 27 January 1917, Breslau (now Wrocław), Silesia) was a Czech-German rabbi, Talmudist, and Jewish theologian.

Biography

Zuckermandl was a student of Samson Raphael Hirsch in Nikolsburg. He subsequently studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau.

He became a rabbi in Pleschen (now Pleszew), Prussia, and was appointed lecturer of the Mora-Leipziger Foundation at Breslau, on 1 April 1898. His major literary efforts related to the Tosefta and included the first critical edition based on variant manuscripts, particularly the Erfurt manuscript.

Literary works

• Die Erfurter Handschrift der Tosefta (1876)
• Die Tosefta nach den Erfurter und Wiener Handschriften (1880–1882)
• Spruchbuch Enthaltend Biblische Sprüche aus dem Gebetbuche (1889)
• Vokabularium und Grammatik zu den Hebräischen Versen des Spruchbuches I. (1890)

See also

• Old Synagogue (Erfurt)

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Dunbar, Newell (1901–1906). "Zuckermandel, Moses Samuel". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
• Moshe David Herr, Zuckermandel, Moses Samuel; in Encyclopaedia Judaica, Second Edition, Volume 21.