Mardochée Venture

Mardochée Venture was a French Judaic scholar and translator. He served as secretary and Hebrew interpreter at the Library of King Louis XVI.
In collaboration with Isaïe Vidal, Venture composed the Seder ha-Kontres, a collection of liturgical chants for the use of the Jews of the county of Venaissin, known as Papal Jews. This compilation includes a piyyut composed by Venture, partly in Hebrew and partly in Provençal, which was translated into French by Ernest Sabatier in his Chansons hébraïco-provençales des juifs comtadins and by Pedro II of Brazil, in his Poésies hébraïco-provençales du rituel israélite comtadin. Venture's translations of prayer books were republished through the 19th century.

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