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Schiffer, Feiwel (Phoebus)
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
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Russian Hebraist and poet; born in Lasezow, government of Lublin, about 1810; died after 1866. He lived successively in Josefov, Brody, Szebrszyn, and Warsaw, and was one of the best-known of the early Maskilim of Russian Poland. He wrote: "Ḥaẓerot ha-Shir," an epic poem on the life of the patriarch Jacob (Warsaw, 1840); "Maṭṭa' Leshem," a treatise on agriculture and life in the country (ib. 1843); "Debar Geburot," a biography of Prince Paskewitsch (ib. 1845); "Toledot Napoleon," in two parts (ib. 1849 and 1857); "Mahlekim 'im Anashim," a translation of Knigge's "Umgang mit Menschen" (ib. 1866).
Bibliography:
- Ḥaẓerot ha-Shir, Preface;
- Zeitlin, Bibl. Post-Mendels, p. 344.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Schiffer, Feiwel (Phoebus)'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/s/schiffer-feiwel-phoebus.html. 1901.
Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Schiffer, Feiwel (Phoebus)'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/s/schiffer-feiwel-phoebus.html. 1901.
