Simon Bondi Explained

Simon Bondi
Death Place:Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony, German Confederation
Movement:Haskalah

Simon Bondi (; 1774 – 20 December 1816) was a German maskil and lexicographer of the Talmud.

He wrote, together with his brother, the Or Ester ('Light of Esther'), a Hebrew dictionary of the Latin words occurring in the Talmud, targumim and midrashim (Dessau, 1812). They also wrote a similar work on the Greek words, which was never printed. The periodical Jedidja (i. 117–125) contains a biographical obituary of Simon by his brother Mordecai.

Bondi was related to the author and the court factor and banker Simon Isaac Bondi. His sister Sophie married into the Warburg family of Hamburg.

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