Nissan Deliatitz Explained

Nissan ben Avraham Deliatitz was a 19th-century Russian rabbi and mathematician.

He wrote Keneh Ḥokhmah, a manual of algebra in five parts, published in Vilna and Grodno in 1829.^[1] The work received approbations from Rabbi David, the av beit din of Novhardok, and Rabbi Avraham Abele ben Avraham Shlomo Poswoler, an eminent scholar who headed the Vilna beit din.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Book: Deliatitz, Nisan. Ḳeneh ḥokhmah: ḳolel ḥamishah sheʻarim be-hokhmat algebra. Vilna and Grodno. 1829. Menaḥem Man ben Barukh and Śimḥah Zimel ben Menaḥem Naḥum. 19154733. Hebrew.
2. Book: Assaf, David. Untold Tales of the Hasidim: Crisis & Discontent in the History of Hasidism. Dena. Ordan. Waltham. Brandeis University Press. 2010. 978-1-58465-861-0. 241.