Menahem Amelander Explained

Menahem Mann Ben Solomon ha-Levi Amelander was a Dutch-Jewish author and historian of the 18th century. He died before 1767.^[1]

Life

His 1743 Old Yiddish chronicle, Sheyris Yisroel (Remnant of Israel) is a continuation of his Yiddish translation of Josippon with a general history of the Jews in the diaspora until 1740.^{[2] [3] [4]} He also drew on the history of Jacques Basnage.^[5] Max Erik and Israel Zinberg considered it the foremost representative of its genre.^[6] It was cited by Abraham Trebitsch with his Qorot ha-'Ittim and Abraham Chaim Braatbard with his Ayn Naye Kornayk.^[7] Zinberg called it "the most important work of Old Yiddish historiographical literature".^[8]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Amelander (Amlander), Menahem Mann Ben Solomon Ha-Levi. 2023-11-05 . www.jewishencyclopedia.com.
2. Wallet . Bart . Links in a Chain: Early Modern Yiddish Historiography in the Northern Netherlands (1743-1812) . 2012-01-01 . Universiteit van Amsterdam [thesis, fully internal] . en.
3. Web site: menahem man ben salomo halevi und sein jiddisches geschichtswerk "sche'erit jisrael" . 2023-11-06 . De Gruyter . de.
4. Fuks-Mansfeld . R.G. . 1981 . Yiddish Historiography in the Time of the Dutch Republic . Studia Rosenthaliana . 15 . 1 . 9–19 . 41481882 . 0039-3347.
5. 2019 . Hidden Polemic: Josephus's Work in the Historical Writings of Jacques Basnage and Menaḥem Amelander . Josephus in Modern Jewish Culture . 42.
6. Smith . Mark L. . December 2021 . Two Views of Yiddish Culture in the Netherlands . Studia Rosenthaliana . 47 . 2 . 117–138 . 10.5117/SR2021.2.002.SMIT. 31 January 2024 .
7. Wallet . Bart . 2007 . Ongoing History: The Successor Tradition in Early Modern Jewish Historiography . Studia Rosenthaliana . 40 . 183–194 . 10.2143/SR.40.0.2028843 . 41482510 . 0039-3347.
8. Book: Zinberg, Israel . Old Yiddish Literature from Its Origins to the Haskalah Period . 1975 . KTAV Publishing House, Inc. . 978-0-87068-465-4 . en.