Mendel Bresslau


Mendel ben Ḥayyim Judah Bresslau was a Silesian Hebraist, writer, and bookseller.
Along with fellow Maskil Isaac Abraham Euchel, he founded language in Königsberg the Me'assefim society for the promotion of the Hebrew. He published numerous articles in the organization's periodical, Ha-Me'assef.
Among other works, Bresslau was the author of an allegorical ethical dialogue, Yaldut u-baḥarut. He also wrote Gelilot Eretz Israel, a geography of the Land of Israel with two maps, and Reshit ha-keriah, a Hebrew reader and grammar with the phonetic method.

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